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The four horsemen of programming reality! People think we're hardware wizards opening computer cases like surgeons. Parents believe we're rocket scientists in lab coats inventing the next NASA project. Meanwhile, we imagine ourselves as beautiful-mind geniuses solving complex algorithms... But the crushing truth? We're just professional Googlers desperately typing "How to use dates in JavaScript" for the 47th time this week because nobody—NOBODY—can remember JavaScript's cursed Date API. The gap between perception and reality has never been so hilariously wide.

The classic programmer journey from self-righteousness to self-sabotage in three easy steps: First, you write a verbose, descriptive function name that perfectly documents what it does. You feel virtuous. Clean code! Self-documenting! Then, you realize typing that monstrosity repeatedly is killing your productivity. So you create a wrapper function with a shorter name. Problem solved! Finally, you're faced with your creation in production code: if (cumming()) - and suddenly you remember why code reviews exist. Your future maintainers will either die laughing or hunt you down with pitchforks. And this, friends, is why naming things remains one of the two hardest problems in computer science.

HTTP status codes: the passive-aggressive notes of the internet. Top panel shows the server handing over a nice "200 OK" response to the client. Everything's working, life is good. Bottom panel? Client's getting a "400 Bad Request" error, complete with that JSON error object that might as well say "it's not me, it's you." The client's face says it all - that unique mixture of confusion, rage, and existential dread that hits when your request fails but you're absolutely certain your syntax was perfect. Spoiler: it wasn't.

Frontend devs mock backend folks for using plain JavaScript instead of the framework-du-jour, but secretly, we all know those vanilla JS backends have been running flawlessly for years while the frontend stack has been rewritten 17 times. That backend code written in 2014? Still chugging along without a hiccup. Meanwhile, the frontend team is busy migrating from React to Vue to Svelte to whatever shiny new framework dropped last Tuesday. Sometimes boring technology is the most reliable. And deep down, we're all a little jealous of that stability.

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