APIs Vs Web Scrapers

When someone claims they "use C++ in JavaScript," you expect some horrifying abomination of code. But then they show a basic for loop with C++ style increment (c++) and suddenly everyone's laughing because it's the most innocent dad joke in programming history. It's like telling people you know kung fu and then just waving your arms around making "whoosh" sounds. The audacity of this pun deserves both a standing ovation and immediate revocation of coding privileges.

The eternal workplace hierarchy in action! Junior devs naively approach seniors with what they think are simple questions, only to be met with the sacred incantation: "Just Google it." The senior programmer isn't being cruel—they're performing the ancient rite of passage that transforms helpless code babies into self-sufficient engineers. Remember the first time you mustered the courage to ask about that NullPointerException only to be redirected to the holy shrine of Stack Overflow? That's not gatekeeping—that's tough love wrapped in efficiency. The cycle continues, and someday that junior will be the one refusing to explain what a callback function is.

Behold the majestic stick figure - the pinnacle of programmer art! When code wizards are forced to venture beyond their comfort zone of beautiful brackets and elegant functions, this masterpiece emerges. It's that magical moment when your boss says "we can't afford a designer" and suddenly your CS degree transforms you into Picasso with MS Paint skills. The artistic vision is... minimalist? Yeah, let's call it minimalist. 🎨

Chrome using 24MB just to display an empty HTML page is like watching someone eat an entire pizza as an "appetizer." The browser's like "What? This is just me warming up!" Meanwhile, your RAM is filing for emotional distress. Next time someone asks why your laptop sounds like it's preparing for liftoff, just point to Chrome's tab collection.

Somewhere in an alternate universe, browser makers actually considered user experience over ad revenue. Imagine a world where you set your cookie preferences ONCE instead of clicking "Reject All" 47 times per day like some deranged cookie-hating woodpecker. But no—that would be too convenient. The suits had a good laugh about that one before going back to their champagne and "innovative monetization strategies." Meanwhile, the rest of us are trapped in cookie banner hell, our fingers developing repetitive strain injuries from declining tracking on the same sites we visited yesterday.

What fresh hell is this? Someone decided to nest animations within animations, with timing functions that depend on each other, and then threw in boolean flags named "finished" and "finishedInside" because apparently we're writing code that doubles as an adult film script. This is the kind of animation code that makes you wake up at 3 AM six months later when the client reports that "sometimes the button jiggles wrong on Samsung devices but only on Tuesdays." The triple equality check is the cherry on top. Like, yes, let's make absolutely sure we're comparing the exact same type while the rest of this code is playing 4D chess with timing functions.