Trying To Learn A Young Language, Using A Tutorial That's More Than A Year Old

Going from writing vanilla CSS to discovering Tailwind is like upgrading from a flip phone to the latest iPhone. Suddenly all those custom media queries, BEM naming conventions, and 37 different CSS files become a single className prop with cryptic abbreviations like "flex-col p-4 rounded-sm hover:bg-red-500". The IMAX-sized screen of CSS code perfectly captures that moment when you realize you'll never have to write "display: flex; flex-direction: column;" again. Just slap on "flex flex-col" and call it a day. Your therapist will notice the reduced eye twitching immediately.

Web development: a never-ending cycle of "fixing" what wasn't broken. The timeline is painfully accurate—each framework promising salvation from the previous one's "problems." Meanwhile, frontend devs are just collecting framework experience like Pokémon cards. The best part? In 2030, we'll probably invent HTML2 to fix whatever JavaScript monstrosity we've created by then. It's the circle of web life: build, complain, rebuild, repeat.

Behold the TRAUMA of React development! At the top, we have the blessed, sanctified .jsx file with its holy atom icon, living its best life. Meanwhile below, we're witnessing an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE of naming conventions that would make any developer collapse into the fetal position! Four different ways to name the SAME COMPONENT?! Are we TRYING to summon demons into our codebase?! This is the kind of chaos that makes senior developers wake up screaming at night and project managers develop spontaneous eye twitches. The inconsistency is literally CRIMINAL and should be punishable by being forced to use Internet Explorer for all eternity!

Ever wondered why your laptop fans sound like they're preparing for liftoff? Look no further than your node_modules folder! While your actual code might be a svelte stormtrooper, those dependencies are an absolute unit that would make the Death Star blush. 500 lines of your code somehow requires 500MB of someone else's code. And heaven forbid you run npm install on a weak WiFi connection – you could literally go make a sandwich, watch a Star Wars trilogy, and come back to find it still downloading the "essential" packages needed to center a div.

Job listings these days are basically a tech buzzword bingo card. Left side: backend technologies like Postgres, Kafka, Kubernetes. Right side: frontend stack with React, Vue, and Tailwind. And recruiters? They want you to be an expert in all of it . The painful truth every developer knows: companies post "entry-level" positions requiring mastery of 15 different technologies, 8 years of experience, and probably the ability to refactor legacy code while blindfolded. Meanwhile, the actual job is maintaining a CRUD app from 2012. The cherry on top? The salary is "competitive" – which translates to "we'll pay you half what you're worth but hey, we have free snacks in the break room!"

The mountain of web development gets steeper with each framework. HTML? Just a gentle slope. CSS? A bit more challenging. Bootstrap? Now we're cruising downhill! But then comes React Native and suddenly you're falling off a cliff. That moment when you think you've mastered frontend development only to have React Native remind you that cross-platform mobile dev is where dreams go to die. Ten years of experience and I'm still googling "why is my flexbox not working on Android but fine on iOS."