Hot take

Content Me: just wrote 384 lines of unsaved code My computer: I have decided that I want to die

Content Chapter 6. How To Land

Finally, a policy everyone in tech can get behind! The meme brilliantly captures the collective trauma of every developer who's ever had to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard while some senior engineer watches with folded arms. LeetCode questions are basically the tech industry's hazing ritual - "Sure you built three successful apps, but can you solve this completely irrelevant algorithm puzzle in O(log n) time?" If this executive order were real, developers everywhere would be throwing their whiteboard markers into the air like graduation caps. The greatest humanitarian achievement of our time would be freeing junior devs from explaining dynamic programming to people who already know the answer.

Content It's been two hours, have you finished that story? While sitting in this same meeting that I gave the estimate?

Content The software on which I am working as a hobby The enterprise software on which I am paid to work for

Ever wondered why your laptop fans sound like they're preparing for liftoff? Look no further than your node_modules folder! While your actual code might be a svelte stormtrooper, those dependencies are an absolute unit that would make the Death Star blush. 500 lines of your code somehow requires 500MB of someone else's code. And heaven forbid you run npm install on a weak WiFi connection – you could literally go make a sandwich, watch a Star Wars trilogy, and come back to find it still downloading the "essential" packages needed to center a div.