From CSS Hell To JavaScript Purgatory

Ah, the irony of modern web development. First panel: "How to make a responsive website" - presented with all the confidence of someone who just discovered media queries yesterday. Second panel: The same "expert's" actual website demanding you increase your window size or switch to desktop because apparently their definition of "responsive" is "works exclusively on screens the size of a small billboard." Nothing says frontend expertise quite like telling mobile users their devices are the problem. The digital equivalent of "you're holding it wrong."

SWEET MERCIFUL HEAVENS! The absolute TRAUMA of waking up from the most beautiful dream where coding and technology didn't exist! For one blissful moment, you thought you'd escaped the hellscape of JavaScript callbacks, React component lifecycles, and the eternal damnation of debugging! But NOPE! You're just a primitive primate destined to hunt for semicolons instead of ants. The sheer AUDACITY of your brain to make you think you could escape the programming matrix! Return to monke - it's genuinely the better option at this point! 🐒

Frontend devs rejecting Tailwind's utility-first approach only to embrace the chaos of a 10,000-line CSS file that not even its creator understands anymore. Nothing says "I'm a serious developer" like spending three hours hunting down which selector is overriding your button styles. The irony? They'll still complain about "div soup" while their stylesheet resembles the complete works of Shakespeare – if Shakespeare had a nervous breakdown and typed with his elbows.

Grandpa Simpson is basically every senior dev watching juniors slap flex justify-between items-center p-4 rounded-md shadow-lg on everything without understanding what a float is. The CSS purists are sitting on their tree stumps of righteousness while the rest of us are just trying to ship products without writing 200 lines of media queries. Yes, frameworks can be overkill, but have you tried centering a div without one? That's the real horror story.

The eternal mountain climb of web development in four perfect panels: First, you think you're nearly at the summit with HTML. "Almost done!" you declare, blissfully unaware of what lies ahead. Then CSS enters the chat. "Almost!" you tell yourself, as your layout breaks for the 47th time because you forgot a semicolon somewhere. Bootstrap arrives like a superhero, and suddenly you're cruising. "Oh yes!" Life is good when someone else handles the responsive design nightmare. But then... the final boss appears: the unholy trinity of modern frontend frameworks. Vue, Angular, and React stare back at you, and your soul leaves your body as you realize you now need to learn state management, component lifecycle, and why your bundle size is 14MB for a simple todo app.

The modern dev industry in one horrifying portrait. This poor soul has spent 15 years installing packages and memorizing framework APIs without understanding a single line of vanilla code underneath. Can't write a for loop without reaching for lodash, but boy can they recite the entire React documentation while sleeping. I've interviewed these people. They'll talk your ear off about their "deep expertise" in 47 frameworks they've "mastered," but ask them to reverse a string without npm and suddenly they need to "research best practices." Their resume is just a word cloud of package names. The worst part? These people get hired. A lot. Because nobody wants to admit they can't tell the difference between someone who understands programming and someone who's just really good at following Medium tutorials.