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Samson lost his power when his hair was cut. Achilles was invincible except for his heel. And junior programmers? They're completely defenseless against Webpack and Docker. Nothing quite like watching a new dev's soul leave their body during their first container orchestration meeting. "Just configure your dependencies in the yaml file" might as well be "just perform brain surgery with a spork." The real hero's journey isn't slaying monsters—it's surviving the first deployment without having an existential crisis.

BEHOLD! The most accurate frontend development roadmap ever created! 🔥 First, you innocently learn some HTML thinking "how hard could this be?" Then BAM! Your forehead meets desk as you discover that centering a div is apparently rocket science. You crawl back to learn CSS, only to spiral into an existential crisis wondering why you didn't become a farmer instead. The JavaScript part? That's where your soul actually leaves your body. And the BEST part? This glorious cycle of head-slamming and life-questioning becomes your daily ritual! Frontend development isn't a career—it's a commitment to professional self-torture with pretty UI as the consolation prize!

The eternal developer purgatory: staring at an error message that might as well be written in ancient Sumerian. "Bad argument on line 237" — thanks for narrowing it down to just the entire function. Modern languages with their PhDs and billions in funding still can't tell you what you did wrong without making you feel like you're decoding the Enigma. Sure, let's spend 3 hours debugging what turns out to be a missing semicolon. Totally reasonable use of my finite existence on this planet.

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