What Do You Mean I Can't Define Hooks For Everything

Backend devs suddenly thrust into frontend work is like watching a fish try to climb a tree. The meme perfectly captures that moment when your React-allergic backend colleague has to touch CSS while the frontend dev is sipping margaritas on vacation. Meanwhile, they're also dealing with ChatGPT generating components that look functional but are secretly held together with digital duct tape. The face of pure existential dread says it all - "I didn't sign up for this flex-box nightmare!"

Ah yes, the classic startup "opportunity" where you can trade actual money for the possibility of future money! The red flag is so big it could guide ships through fog. Translation: "We can't afford developers but we're pretty sure our idea is the next Facebook. Trust us, bro." Zero applicants after three weeks? Shocking! Almost as if professional developers enjoy paying rent and buying food. The audacity of calling unpaid work a "stake in our future" instead of what it really is—gambling with your time.

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.

Remember when the web was just static HTML? Those were simpler times. Now we're over here connecting Redux thunks to Suspense while our node_modules folder consumes half our hard drive space. JavaScript started as a tiny language to make form validation less painful, but somehow evolved into this monster where your shopping cart app needs 807 dependencies just to render "undefined apples please" to the screen. The best part? We've collectively convinced ourselves this is normal. Meanwhile, Flash—problematic as it was—is dead, but we've replaced it with an ecosystem so complex that half the developers using it don't understand what's happening under the hood. But hey, at least we can run JavaScript everywhere now. Even places it absolutely shouldn't be.

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 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.