Side projects Memes

Ever notice how we've mastered creating 748 different to-do list apps but still haven't figured out flying cars? The tech industry in a nutshell—spending countless hours building yet another CRUD app with authentication while our sci-fi dreams collect dust. Meanwhile, bootcamp grads are busy creating weather apps that tell you it's raining... while you're standing in the rain. The real innovation bottleneck isn't technology—it's developers padding their GitHub profiles with projects nobody asked for instead of building the jetpacks we were promised. Maybe if we redirected the collective brainpower spent on "Uber for dogs" startups, we'd actually have those self-tying shoes from Back to the Future by now.

The eternal developer cycle: abandoning a graveyard of unfinished projects to chase the dopamine hit of starting something new. That shiny new project idea looks so promising while you're neck-deep in technical debt and spaghetti code from your previous attempts. "This time I'll use proper documentation! This time I'll write tests first! This time I won't hardcode everything!" Spoiler alert: you won't. But hey, at least the first three days of every new project feel like pure genius before reality sets in.

The classic tale of developer overengineering, brought to you by "pingusVM" - a project that died before it lived. Nothing screams "I've been coding too long" like deciding your VM needs both stack AND register-based architecture when one would've done just fine. Meanwhile, WebAssembly is sitting there like "been there, solved that" while our ambitious dev realizes they've reinvented a square wheel. The best projects are the ones you abandon after that 2AM moment of clarity when you realize you're competing with an entire team at Google. But hey, at least they got a funny name out of it. RIP pingusVM (2023-2023) - we hardly knew ye.

Ah yes, the developer's soundtrack. When Spotify Wrapped comes out, normal people share their top pop hits while programmers just have a playlist that perfectly narrates their debugging journey. From "What the F*ck is Happening" to "I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself," with a sprinkle of "Indentation" problems and the classic "ERROR" on repeat. Nothing says "I code for a living" quite like having two instances of "Plus" back-to-back because you're desperately trying to concatenate strings at 3 AM. C programming gets its own dedicated track—appropriately "Untitled & Unfinished," just like that side project you abandoned six months ago.

The five stages of developer grief happen in approximately 5 minutes flat. First comes the euphoria—arms raised, dopamine flowing, convinced you're about to build the next billion-dollar unicorn. Then reality strikes faster than a compiler error on line 1. Suddenly you're staring into the void, questioning your career choices and wondering if it's too late to become a professional dog walker. The gap between "I'm a coding genius with revolutionary ideas" and "I can't figure out why this basic function returns undefined" is approximately 300 seconds. It's almost impressive how quickly we go from tech visionary to existential crisis.

The eternal ritual of the programmer: commanding the current side project to remain silent while being seduced by the siren call of a shiny new idea. That dopamine hit from starting something fresh is just *chef's kiss* - while your half-finished projects collect digital dust in that special GitHub folder we never speak of. The cemetery of "I'll get back to this later" grows another tombstone.

The AUDACITY of my brain to get hyper-fixated on some random side project while my main project gasps for air like a drowning child! Meanwhile, the company's revenue-critical project? HONEY, that's a full-on skeletal remains situation—decomposing at the bottom of the ocean while I'm over here coding a useless Chrome extension that sorts my bookmarks by color! The project manager is sending increasingly desperate Slack messages, but I simply cannot be bothered when I'm THIS close to optimizing my side project's loading time by 0.03 seconds! PRIORITIES, am I right?!

The eternal cycle of developer enthusiasm. Top frame: joyfully playing with the shiny new project while completely ignoring last week's project drowning right next to you. Bottom frame: your GitHub graveyard—a haunting underwater boneyard of abandoned repositories that will never see a commit again. The real horror isn't the code quality; it's the commitment issues.

The eternal cycle of side project enthusiasm. Top panel: Day 1, euphoric excitement, telling everyone how revolutionary your idea is and how you'll finish it in a weekend. Bottom panel: Day 3, staring blankly at your terminal as you realize you've created an unholy abomination of dependencies that would make Cthulhu weep. That API key commit to main branch? Chef's kiss of despair. The only thing growing faster than your git commit messages is your collection of Stack Overflow tabs.