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The unholy trinity of "rapid development" is on full display! The tweet claims Git, JavaScript, and Microsoft BASIC were all created in under a week—which is hilariously wrong and the perfect setup for the three-headed dragon meme below. Two fierce dragon heads represent Git and BASIC—powerful tools that required significant development time. But that third head? JavaScript with its derpy eyes and tongue sticking out perfectly captures how JS was indeed cobbled together in 10 days by Brendan Eich in 1995. Fun fact: Linus Torvalds spent months creating Git after the BitKeeper controversy, and BASIC took significant development at Microsoft. Meanwhile, JavaScript—despite being slapped together in a mad rush to compete with Java—somehow powers most of the modern web. Proof that sometimes the derpy dragon wins!

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of non-technical people assuming Java and JavaScript are related! 💅 Honey, that's like saying a car and carpet are the same because they both start with "car"! The mental gymnastics required to explain for the 5,000th time that knowing one doesn't magically grant you knowledge of the other is EXHAUSTING! They're completely different languages with different purposes - Java's all "compile once, run anywhere" while JavaScript's like "let's make this button do a little dance when you hover over it, teehee!" And yet here we are, STILL having this conversation in 2023! The trauma! The drama! I literally can't even!

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The mummified remains of the last developer who dared to challenge the Linux packaging ecosystem. Flatpak and Steam's unholy marriage has claimed yet another victim trying to make non-Steam games work. For the uninitiated, Flatpak is supposed to be the savior of Linux app distribution—a universal packaging format that works across distros. But try adding non-Steam games to the Flatpak version of Steam and suddenly you're performing digital necromancy with file permissions and sandboxing that would make Dumbledore question his life choices. The corpse in the image? That's just what's left after your 17th attempt at configuring Proton prefixes through three layers of containerization.

Content Hey, why do you muzzle it?' Don't! Not every developer has imposter syndrome-some are simply bad at their job but excel in self-awareness.