It Was Just A Dream

The evolution of web development in four panels! Started with the innocent dream of "build the internet" - so pure, so simple. Then we added some HTML/CSS because, you know, websites should look pretty. But then... oh no... the JavaScript framework apocalypse struck! Now we're all frantically learning 17 new frameworks before breakfast just to stay employable. Remember when you could just FTP a single HTML file to a server and call it a day? Now you need 4GB of node_modules to display "Hello World". The modern web: where your simple todo app requires more computing power than NASA used to reach the moon.

Your actual application: a modest 300KB of code that probably just displays a form and fetches some data. Your node_modules folder: a 12GB monstrosity that requires military-grade equipment to transport. Somewhere in there are 47 different versions of lodash, a left-pad implementation, and the entire Chromium browser bundled three times over. The ratio is absolutely unhinged. You installed one package, which had dependencies, which had dependencies, which had dependencies... and now you're carrying around more code than the Apollo 11 guidance computer used to land on the moon. All to center a div. Fun fact: If you delete node_modules, you can free up enough disk space to install another operating system. But you won't, because running npm install again is a 20-minute commitment and a prayer.

Executive order just dropped: UI/UX terms now require more syllables for maximum developer frustration. Next week they'll rename "copy-paste" to "duplicate-and-relocate-digital-information." Somewhere, a frontend dev is crying into their mechanical keyboard while updating documentation.

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Someone built a calculator app that displays "hello world" in the output and shows "2+2" as the calculation. You know, because every CS student's journey starts with printing "hello world" and ends with... still printing "hello world" but with extra steps and a UI framework. The calculator doesn't even pretend to calculate anything. It's just hardcoded to show the sacred greeting regardless of what math you're attempting. Pretty much sums up that final project you threw together at 3 AM the night before it's due—looks functional from a distance, actually does nothing useful, but hey, it compiles and displays text on screen. Professor gives you a B- for effort. The real flex is having parentheses buttons on a calculator that only outputs "hello world". That's some next-level commitment to the bit.

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