We Are Not Beating The Allegations

The entire digital world stands on the shoulders of a single C library that some guy wrote in his basement in 1998. Every streaming service, every video call, every cat video – all powered by FFmpeg, a tool held together with duct tape and caffeine. The best part? Most companies making millions from video content have no idea their empire rests on this Jenga tower of open-source code. If the three developers who actually understand the codebase ever decided to take a vacation simultaneously, Netflix would just be a spinning loading icon.

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That moment of sheer existential terror when you download a sketchy game and the command prompt flashes on screen for a millisecond. Suddenly you're mentally calculating how many bitcoins you'll need to pay the ransomware that's inevitably encrypting your hard drive right now. Nothing says "I've made a terrible life choice" quite like watching that black window pop up and disappear faster than your career prospects.

Frontend devs mock backend folks for using plain JavaScript instead of the framework-du-jour, but secretly, we all know those vanilla JS backends have been running flawlessly for years while the frontend stack has been rewritten 17 times. That backend code written in 2014? Still chugging along without a hiccup. Meanwhile, the frontend team is busy migrating from React to Vue to Svelte to whatever shiny new framework dropped last Tuesday. Sometimes boring technology is the most reliable. And deep down, we're all a little jealous of that stability.

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