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Perfectly Balanced JavaScript

16 hours ago 67.2K views 0 shares

Ah, the modern JavaScript ecosystem in a nutshell. Need to optimize your project? Just delete half of it randomly! The beauty of Thanos.js is that it solves the bloated node_modules problem with the same elegant solution Thanos had for universe overpopulation. Perfectly balanced, as all git repositories should be. The real joke is that for a split second, some developers probably thought "hmm, that might actually work better than the 47 dependencies I'm currently using to center a div."

People Do It For You

Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

2 days ago 81.1K views 0 shares

When you need to check if a number is odd, but writing n % 2 !== 0 is too mainstream, so you create a 1.3M downloads/month npm package that emails Google and Reddit support to ask them. The function has 50 lines of code to send emails, parse responses, and return a Promise, when it could be a one-liner. Modern JavaScript development in its purest form - why solve a problem in 1 line when you can create an entire microservice ecosystem?

The House Of Cards We Call Software

Programming Webdev Devops Javascript Frontend

2 days ago 82.0K views 0 shares

Behold, the Tower of Babel approach to software development! You spend weeks meticulously stacking your project like some architectural masterpiece, only for the universe to whisper: "That random library your entire foundation depends on? Yeah, it's getting deprecated tomorrow." It's like building a house of cards on top of someone else's house of cards, and they've just decided to take up competitive sneezing. The higher your tower of dependencies grows, the more spectacular the inevitable collapse. And yet we keep building taller, don't we?

If It Can Be Written In Javascript It Will

Javascript Programming Backend

3 days ago 100.7K views 0 shares

If It Can Be Written In Javascript It Will

Ah, the inevitable JavaScript invasion question! The Social Security system runs on COBOL because it was built when dinosaurs roamed Silicon Valley. COBOL's delightful Y2K-ready feature: missing dates default to 1875, creating phantom 150-year-old benefit recipients. Meanwhile, JavaScript developers are wondering why they can't rewrite critical government infrastructure using npm packages that break every Tuesday. Because nothing says "reliable pension system" like a framework that's deprecated faster than milk expires. The real tragedy? If Social Security was written in JavaScript, those 150-year-olds would be getting NaN dollars per month while the system tries to figure out if their birthdate is truthy.

You Can't Hear Images? Hold My Terminal

Debugging Javascript Programming

3 days ago 65.2K views 0 shares

Developers staring smugly at their console full of error messages like "Yeah, I can definitely hear that image." The sound of a thousand npm packages breaking simultaneously is basically a lullaby after your fifth year in the industry. That satisfying beep.mp3 of your code crashing at 2AM has its own special place in your Spotify playlist, right between "Keyboard Clacking ASMR" and "Deadline Panic Attack Breathing Techniques".

Code Dependency Issues

Programming Devops Javascript Debugging

4 days ago 74.9K views 0 shares

The joke works on two levels - just like good code should! In programming, "dependency issues" refer to problems with external libraries or packages that your code relies on. But here, it's cleverly twisted into relationship dependencies, suggesting programmers struggle with emotional attachments because they're too busy fixing broken package imports and version conflicts. The dinosaur's tearful reaction in the last panel hits hard for anyone who's spent 8 hours debugging only to discover they forgot to run npm install . Relationships require maintenance too - but at least they don't randomly break when someone pushes an update to npm.

No More JavaScript On The Backend

Javascript Programming Backend

6 days ago 83.8K views 0 shares

Finally, an executive order we can all get behind. Node.js developers nationwide are frantically updating their resumes while Python and Go developers smugly nod in approval. The real tragedy? Thousands of npm packages suddenly wondering what they did wrong. Meanwhile, backend purists who've been saying "JavaScript belongs in the browser" for years are printing this out and framing it above their mechanical keyboards.

The Beginning Of An Idiocracy

Javascript Webdev React C++ Programming

9 days ago 78.1K views 0 shares

Behold the horrifying family lineage of programming languages! C and C++ started as a respectable couple with just TWO family members. Fast forward a measly 5 years and BOOM—JavaScript appears. But wait for the apocalypse! 60 years later we're drowning in a TSUNAMI of JavaScript frameworks and libraries that have multiplied faster than rabbits on energy drinks! The family tree looks like someone sneezed on a genealogy chart! This is what happens when you let a language created in 10 days reproduce unchecked. The horror! THE HORROR!

Javascript Junkies

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

9 days ago 85.8K views 0 shares

That poor Vanilla JS developer surrounded by framework fanatics in the JavaScript pool party! The lone dev just trying to write clean, native code while everyone points and judges like he brought a flip phone to an iPhone convention. Framework zealots never miss a chance to evangelize their library of choice, while vanilla devs are left explaining why they don't need 300MB of node_modules to render a button. The irony? That vanilla JS dev probably understands the language better than all the framework swimmers combined!

Let's Test Which Language Is Faster (At Failing)

Debugging C++ Javascript Programming Python

10 days ago 69.3K views 0 shares

Let's Test Which Language Is Faster (At Failing)

Oh honey, you thought this was about SPEED? *dramatic hair flip* The top panel shows a cute little race between programming languages, but the REAL competition is in the bottom panel where your code gets ABSOLUTELY DEMOLISHED by errors that come out of NOWHERE! Your precious Python with its indentation errors? TRAGIC. Java throwing NullPointerExceptions like confetti at a parade? DEVASTATING. And don't even get me STARTED on JavaScript with its NPM install drama - it's like watching a dumpster fire in slow motion while someone plays the violin! The universe doesn't care which language is faster when your code is busy IMPLODING on itself! The real winner is the bug that makes you question your entire career choice at 3AM!

Why Is This So Common

Programming Webdev Javascript Frontend Backend

11 days ago 72.8K views 0 shares

The eternal developer tragedy: spending hours hunting for the perfect library with that one specific feature you need, only to discover it's the only feature missing. It's like ordering a pizza specifically for the pineapple and getting everything BUT the pineapple. The universe has a special way of ensuring your dependency choices are maximally frustrating. Next time just write those 300 lines of code yourself and save the emotional damage!

The Dependency Tower Of Doom