Gunna Hate It

Remember when developers were optimization wizards who could cram entire games into kilobytes? Now we've got frameworks that need a small data center just to print "Hello World." The left doge is the chad programmer of '96 flexing on fitting Pokémon Red into a mere 512kB cartridge—an actual miracle of code efficiency. Meanwhile, modern devs (right doge) are having existential crises because their JavaScript framework with 237 dependencies needs a gigabyte of RAM to display two words on a screen. Progress!

JavaScript's parseInt function just decided that 0.0000005 equals 5 because scientific notation turned it into "5e-7" and parseInt grabbed just the "5" like a toddler picking only the M&Ms out of trail mix. Six decimal places? Nah, too much work. Five? Still zero. Seven? BOOM, suddenly 5. It's like JavaScript was programmed by someone rolling dice to determine behavior. No wonder developers drink.

Content When the employer wants you to have 6 yrs experience in Javascript, Python, Java, React, Vue, Laravel, Mongodb, Rails, MySQL, Greek History, Aerodynamics, human anatomy etc. just to manage their wordpress site.

Content Eddy Vinck JavaScript EddyVinckk Web developers in 2020: If we split our JavaScript into separate files and load them on demand we can make the initial request to the homepage 30Kb smaller Game developers in 2020: Here's a 110Gb download including files we're not even using anymore 7:37 PM Jul 13, 2020 Twitter for Android 1 View Tweet activity 29 Retweets 168 Likes

Content Remove your hand from the box and you die What's in the box? tech recruiters thinking Java and JavaScript are the same

Therapy for programmers looks different. The code snippet shows the classic "if not condition, do whatever" pattern - the digital equivalent of shrugging and walking away from a problem. That smug look? It's the face of someone who's written untraceable bugs into production and feels absolutely zero remorse about it. The real mental health crisis in tech isn't burnout, it's the emotional void where code accountability should be.