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

The irony is strong with this one! Blocking ads while simultaneously wishing for higher pay as a web dev is like sawing off the branch you're sitting on. That snake eating its own tail (ouroboros) perfectly captures the self-defeating cycle we create. We build websites funded by ads, then personally ensure no one sees those ads, then wonder why clients won't pay us more. It's the digital equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot while complaining about the cost of shoes.

Senior developers watching junior devs frantically adopt every trending framework and coding style that comes along. They've seen enough JavaScript frameworks rise and fall to know that solid fundamentals outlast the hype. Meanwhile, the juniors are out there doing cartwheels over "revolutionary" approaches that will be abandoned in 8 months. The seniors just sit there, arms folded, thinking "I've written enough spaghetti code in my lifetime, thanks."

THE ABSOLUTE HORROR of returning to the prehistoric coding wasteland! After years of being coddled by frameworks with their fancy useEffect, useState, and useWhateverYouWant hooks, you're suddenly thrust back into the Stone Age of web development. It's like being forced to hunt your own food after living at a 5-star resort! Your fingers, once dancing gracefully across custom hooks, now trembling as they type out raw JavaScript like some kind of ANIMAL. The AUDACITY of having to manually manage DOM updates! The INDIGNITY of writing more than three lines of code to handle a simple state change! I'm getting heart palpitations just THINKING about it! 💀

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! 💅

Oh. My. GOD! The AUDACITY of the tech world in one perfect image! 😱 On the left, some poor soul announces they've literally BENT THE LAWS OF PHYSICS by creating a TIME MACHINE—you know, just casually REVOLUTIONIZING HUMAN EXISTENCE—and nobody gives a flying function about it! Meanwhile, the person on the right is absolutely SWARMED with media attention for... wait for it... "7 JavaScript libraries you should know about." SEVEN! LIBRARIES! The horror! The drama! The sheer absurdity of our priorities as a species! This is why we can't have nice things like time travel, people! We're too busy chasing the next hot npm package that will be deprecated faster than you can say "node_modules"! 💅

The perfect illustration of how a $5,000 website magically transforms into a $50 project after six layers of outsourcing! This is basically the tech industry's version of telephone game, except everyone's wallet gets progressively lighter. What starts with a clueless business owner willing to shell out thousands ends with some poor developer in India coding an entire website for the price of a pizza. Meanwhile, every middleman takes their cut while adding zero value except the phrase "I know a guy." And the best part? The original client still has no idea when their website will be ready. Spoiler alert: it won't be.