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Thanks Dad, For The £500 "Simple" Website Gig

Thanks Dad, For The £500 "Simple" Website Gig
Nothing like family members who think web development is just dragging a few buttons around for an hour. Dad's out here brokering £500 deals for a "normal screen size" website while his kid is wondering if this requires a full CMS, e-commerce integration, or just 47 revisions of "make the logo bigger." The best part? Dad has absolutely no idea what goes into building a website but is confidently volunteering his child's expertise like it's a quick favor. That £500 will cover about 1/10th of the therapy needed after the client says "I want it to be like Amazon but better."

Is This Right

Is This Right
Look at these American cloud giants getting the Toy Story treatment. After years of Stockholm syndrome relationships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, European dev teams are finally having their "Jessie moment." Nothing says "I've reconsidered our toxic relationship" like migrating to Hetzner after your AWS bill suddenly includes a 25% tariff surcharge. Sure, the documentation might be in German, but it's still more comprehensible than Lambda's pricing structure. Scaleway doesn't have 47 different database options? Good. I didn't understand the difference between the last 46 anyway.

We All Did It At Some Point

We All Did It At Some Point
The eternal programmer's paradox! Someone gives you sage advice about valuing your skills, and your brain immediately goes: "But what about my undocumented spaghetti code that I wrote at 3 AM while chugging energy drinks? Surely that masterpiece is worth exactly $5." The cognitive dissonance of knowing we should charge properly for our expertise while simultaneously feeling like imposters selling digital duct tape solutions is the most relatable programmer experience ever. We're all out here building the digital future with code we're secretly embarrassed about!

The Chain Of Command

The Chain Of Command
The perfect illustration of how a $5,000 website magically transforms into a $50 project after six layers of outsourcing! This is basically the tech industry's version of telephone game, except everyone's wallet gets progressively lighter. What starts with a clueless business owner willing to shell out thousands ends with some poor developer in India coding an entire website for the price of a pizza. Meanwhile, every middleman takes their cut while adding zero value except the phrase "I know a guy." And the best part? The original client still has no idea when their website will be ready. Spoiler alert: it won't be.