Defilade

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Ah, the productivity paradox of modern development. Write a single line of code and suddenly your brain demands a two-hour reward break playing League of Legends. The mental gymnastics we perform to justify this is Olympic-level: "I deserve this," "I'm letting my subconscious work on the problem," or my personal favorite, "I'm researching user engagement patterns." Meanwhile, that one line of code is probably just a comment you'll delete tomorrow. The ultimate developer self-deception loop: minimal effort → maximum reward → crushing guilt → repeat.

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The MGM lion is the perfect mascot for web development. On the frontend, you've got this majestic, polished beast roaring confidently at users. Flip to the backend and it's just some poor exhausted dev sprawled across a table with their code running upside down and backwards. The backend is where dreams and clean architecture go to die, but hey—at least the users get to see a pretty lion! Ten years in the industry and I still can't tell if I'm the lion or the guy face-planted on the keyboard. Probably depends on the sprint.

Content DEVELOPERS EXPLAINING WHY YOU HAVE TO STORE DATETIME TIMEZONE SEPARATELY THEN MERGE IT ALL BACK TOGTHER JUST TO CONVERT IT TO A NEW DATETIME THAT GETS IT'S TIMEZONE FROM THE USER DEVICE KAPWING