Hobby coding Memes

The classic highway exit meme strikes again! Here we have the lone developer of a side project making that sharp right turn away from actually finishing a working MVP. Instead, they're veering off into the abyss of "what if I add this one more feature" and "maybe I should refactor this entire section for the fifth time." Let's be honest - we've all got at least three half-finished GitHub repos that started with grand ambitions. You know, the ones where commit messages gradually evolve from "Initial commit" to "Fixed minor bug" to "WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING" before finally reaching "Last commit before abandonment (2019)." The road to production is paved with the corpses of hobby projects that died because we just had to implement that custom authentication system instead of using Auth0 like a normal person.

Hobby coders: "I made a little app that tracks my plants' watering schedule!" Professional developers: *dead inside, sustained only by caffeine and spite* "The production server is on fire again and Stack Overflow is down." The difference? One still has hope. The other has a paycheck and an energy drink addiction.

When normal people talk about "free time activities," they're thinking about hiking or Netflix. Developers? We just switch programming languages. Nothing says "relaxation" quite like abandoning your half-finished Node.js project to start a new one in Rust. It's like taking a vacation, except you're still staring at a screen and questioning your life choices at 3 AM.