Xkcd-style Memes

The billion-dollar tech industry vs. that one legacy system running on a Raspberry Pi in someone's basement. Our entire digital civilization is just elaborate block stacking with extra steps! Meanwhile, some senior engineer's weekend project from 2012 is silently keeping half the internet functioning. The duality of infrastructure: complex architectural masterpieces requiring teams of DevOps engineers alongside that janky script Dave wrote before he retired that nobody dares to touch.