Friday-the-13th Memes

Senior developers when they have to deal with JSON: intimidating, powerful, commands respect. Senior developers when they have to deal with JSON.stringify() : adorable crochet doll that looks like it was made by someone's grandmother during a church group meeting. The juxtaposition is chef's kiss—JSON itself is straightforward, but the moment you need to convert an object to a JSON string, suddenly you're this wholesome craft project with blood tears. Probably because you've seen what stringify() does to circular references. Or tried to debug why your dates became strings. Or dealt with undefined values just vanishing into the void. The horror movie villain becomes a sad little yarn person real quick.