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When Gandalf asks you to debug a regular expression, but you're just a hobbit who wanted second breakfast, not a regex nightmare. That cryptic pattern is basically the One Ring of programming—powerful, dangerous, and impossible to decipher without casting yourself into the fires of Stack Overflow. Even senior devs look at regex and think "It's some form of Elvish" before quietly opening their bookmarked regex101.com tab.

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Government agencies finally entering the digital age but making the worst possible tech choices? *Chef's kiss* Nothing says "we hired consultants from 2003" quite like rejecting clean, lightweight JSON in favor of bloated XML files that require a PhD to parse. The kind of decision that makes developers contemplate career changes to literally anything else. Fun fact: Some government systems still use COBOL, a language older than the moon landing. At this rate, they'll discover JSON around the same time we colonize Mars.

Ah, the semicolon - that tiny punctuation mark with the power to destroy your entire week. While some poor soul lost sleep over a romantic interest, developers know the true nightmare: spending 96 sleepless hours hunting down a missing semicolon that's turning your perfectly crafted code into a dumpster fire. The compiler's just sitting there like "syntax error" without telling you WHICH EXACT LINE needs fixing. Thanks for nothing. And the best part? After those 4 days of debugging hell, you'll find it, add it, and feel simultaneously like the world's biggest genius and complete idiot. Relationships come and go, but the trauma of missing semicolons is forever.