Legal compliance Memes

Ah yes, the annual ritual of updating the copyright year—the one task that makes you feel like you've actually accomplished something in January. Four whole keystrokes of productivity! Sure, you haven't fixed that memory leak or refactored that spaghetti code, but dammit, the footer is legally compliant now. Some devs even automate it with new Date().getFullYear() but that would rob them of this profound sense of achievement. Nothing says "I'm contributing to the codebase" quite like changing a single digit while ignoring the 147 open tickets in Jira.