I Tried A Senior Dev Joke Though I Am A Junior

Left side: A pristine O'Reilly book with an elegant wild boar illustration, promising the secrets to "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" with "reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems." Right side: The same boar, but now sleeping on a dirty mattress next to garbage bins. The elegant theory meets the trashy reality. Spent three months mastering B-trees and distributed consensus algorithms just to end up writing SQL queries that could've been figured out with a 5-minute Stack Overflow search. The duality of software engineering: expectation vs. the glorious dumpster fire we call production.

Content "Why is my function not outputting anything"? "Oh I never called the function"

Content Work project Software Developer Side project

Why write something 100 times like a peasant when you can automate your apologies? The normal student suffers through hand cramps while the programmer just drops a simple for loop and watches the machine do the work. This is the fundamental difference between those who toil and those who think. Work smarter, not harder—even when you're being punished. The true programmer mindset isn't about following rules; it's about finding the most efficient way to break them while technically still complying.

Content Autosave feature of IDE CtriS Me after typing oneline of code

Content Fredrick Smith, Registri Online Death Certificate Request Step 1: Who is on the Death Certificate? The person listed on the Death Certificate is: Myself Someone Else