The 12-Hour JavaScript Tutorial Reality Check

The modern web: muscular SpongeBob flexing with cutting-edge frameworks and sleek designs. Government websites: derpy SpongeBob looking like he was coded in 1997 using a potato. Nothing says "we handle your taxes and personal data" quite like a website that looks like it was designed during the Clinton administration. The digital equivalent of using a rotary phone in the age of smartphones. Fun fact: Some government sites still support Internet Explorer because apparently bureaucracy moves at the speed of continental drift.

Just your typical programmer wordplay that makes non-technical people stare blankly while we chuckle at our keyboards. "Boo" + "lean" = "Boolean". It's the same ghost, just tilted 45 degrees and suddenly it's a fundamental data type that can only be true or false. Much like my relationship with debugging - either I'm fixing bugs or contemplating a career change. No in-between.

The eternal battle between fancy modern streams and good ol' for loops! Sure, streams can filter, map, and reduce with the elegance of a ballet dancer, but try debugging that one-liner that spans three monitors. Meanwhile, traditional for loops are just sitting there like "Yeah, I might not be the cool kid anymore, but at least you know exactly which iteration exploded your production server at 3 AM." Sometimes you don't need a Ferrari when a reliable Toyota with an actual dashboard will get you there without the existential crisis of atomized variables.

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