Developer problems Memes

Steam Winter Sale hits different when you're a developer. You already spend 12 hours a day staring at code, debugging someone else's spaghetti, and arguing with CI/CD pipelines. The last thing you want to do is boot up a game that requires... more thinking. So instead, you buy 47 games at 80% off because "it's a good deal" and "I'll definitely play this when I have time." Spoiler: you won't. That backlog just keeps growing while you convince yourself that buying more games is somehow different from hoarding. It's not. The real game is watching your library percentage drop from 15% to 4% played and pretending that's fine. That's the endgame content right there.

That glorious moment when you finally—FINALLY—finish your feature and get to perform the most sacred ritual known to developers: the Great Tab Purge. You know the drill: 47 Stack Overflow tabs explaining why your async function won't await, 23 GitHub issues from 2016, 89 documentation pages you swore you'd read "later," and approximately 41 tabs of "javascript array methods I always forget" because apparently `.map()` and `.filter()` are too complex for your brain to retain. Closing all those tabs is like Marie Kondo-ing your entire existence. Your RAM can finally breathe. Your laptop fan stops sounding like a jet engine preparing for takeoff. Your browser stops judging you. Pure, unadulterated serenity washes over you as you watch that tab count drop from triple digits to a respectable single digit. Nirvana has been achieved.

Vampires cower before sunlight, Superman trembles at the sight of Kryptonite, and programmers? They recoil in absolute TERROR at the mere mention of... documentation. You know, that thing we're supposed to write to help future developers (and our future selves) understand what the heck our code does? Yeah, that. We'll spend hours debugging, refactoring, optimizing—literally ANYTHING—but ask us to write a few sentences explaining our genius? Suddenly we're hissing and running for the shadows. The irony? We'll rage for hours when someone ELSE doesn't document their code. The hypocrisy is real and we're all living it.

You know that special kind of pain when your uncle starts explaining how "the WiFi is slow because too many megabytes are clogged in the router" or your manager confidently declares that "we just need to download more RAM"? That's the face right there. It's the internal screaming of every developer who has to sit through explanations about how "the cloud is just a big computer in the sky" or "HTML is a programming language, right?" The best part is you can't even correct them without sounding condescending, so you just sit there, nodding politely while your soul slowly exits your body. Every fiber of your being wants to interrupt with "Actually, that's not how TCP/IP works," but you know it'll lead to a 45-minute conversation where you'll somehow end up fixing their printer. Bonus points if they follow up with "You work with computers, right? Can you fix my iPhone?"