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

When your hair matches your syntax highlighting perfectly but everyone just wants to debug your React component. 🙄 The real flex isn't the purple-themed VS Code or the meticulously styled purple hair—it's having the confidence to push code with that many nested divs and not even care about the critique. Honestly, who cares if your React component could use some refactoring when your aesthetic game is this strong? Fashion-driven development is the new TDD.

Ah, the classic LinkedIn clickbait switcheroo! Someone's proudly announcing their addiction to the "PORN stack" - which turns out to be P ostgreSQL, O penAI, R eact, and N ext.js. The perfect tech stack for your resume and guaranteed heart attacks for HR departments everywhere. Bonus points for the 703 reactions from developers who nearly spat out their coffee before realizing it's just another tech acronym. Job recruiters must be having a field day with their keyword searches!

When your passion for anime and your career collide. Crunchyroll's frontend devs are basically getting paid to build the ultimate shrine to their obsession. Talk about living the dream—writing code by day, binging the latest season of Attack on Titan by night, all while claiming it's "research." The ultimate work-life balance doesn't exi—

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of tech recruiters expecting you to be a full-stack developer, DevOps engineer, database administrator, AND UX designer all rolled into one mythical unicorn creature! 🦄 They're out here posting job listings that require you to master 17 different technologies spanning from backend databases to frontend frameworks, PLUS Kubernetes orchestration, with 10+ years experience in a framework that was released 3 years ago! And all for the generous salary of "competitive" (read: barely covers your coffee addiction). The brutal truth? They have NO IDEA what these technologies actually do or how they relate. They just copy-paste buzzwords from other job listings and call it a day. Honey, Postgres and React are not interchangeable skills - they're from completely different UNIVERSES! 💅

College professors living in 2010. Rejecting modern frameworks and buzzwords with a dismissive hand, but absolutely glowing at the prospect of making students implement bubble sort for the 47th time. Nothing says "preparing you for the industry" like coding algorithms nobody's written from scratch since the Bush administration.

Browsing the web in 2024 is basically playing a game of "Popup Whack-a-Mole" before you can actually read anything. Two years later and nothing's changed - we've just gotten faster at the cookie-decline-video-stop-popup-close speedrun. The real achievement isn't finding the information you need, it's remembering what you were looking for after battling through five layers of digital harassment. Modern web developers aren't creating websites anymore; they're designing obstacle courses with a tiny content reward at the end.