Blocked By CORS: Heaven's Firewall

Ah, the eternal tech love triangle. Frontend developers get all the glory, passionately embracing users with their shiny buttons and smooth animations. Meanwhile, backend developers (portrayed as Wolverine) just stand there stoically, watching from afar while keeping the entire system from imploding. The backend dev is the unsung hero who makes everything actually work while the frontend dev gets all the compliments for making things pretty . "Your website looks amazing!" Nobody ever says "Wow, your database queries are so efficient!" And yet, without the backend, that romantic frontend-user relationship would crash and burn faster than a JavaScript framework after npm update.

That crushing moment when you've spent 3 months building your revolutionary microservice architecture with cutting-edge tech stack, only for your friend to glance at it and say "cool" before asking if you've seen the latest Netflix show. The emotional damage is immeasurable. Your creation—your child —dismissed with the same enthusiasm people reserve for mediocre sandwich choices. Next time I'll just say I've been "watching TV" instead of "rewriting my entire app in Rust because JavaScript hurt my feelings."

This meme perfectly captures the duality of AI usage in tech. At the top, we see "normal people" using ChatGPT for sensible things like getting help with writing or homework. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the true essence of tech culture: sleep-deprived IT professionals at 3 AM forcing multiple AI models to do manual labor in a cotton field. Because nothing says "I'm a programmer" quite like staying up until ungodly hours to make AI tools do increasingly bizarre and questionable tasks instead of, you know, sleeping like a functional human being. The desperate creativity that emerges at 3 AM is a universal programmer experience that no amount of caffeine can explain.

The eternal blame game between frontend and backend devs, illustrated perfectly by angry geese. First panel: Frontend dev squawks that backend is the problem. Second panel: Backend dev asks who made things complicated. Third panel: Backend chases frontend who's suddenly running away from accountability. It's the software development circle of life - point fingers until someone has to fix the mess. And just like these geese, we're all just honking angrily at each other while the codebase burns.

Oh. My. God. The TRAUMA of JavaScript's type coercion bringing a grown developer to tears! 😭 The absolute HORROR of "10"-1 = 9 because JavaScript just decides strings with numbers should be numbers when it feels like it! The AUDACITY! And then TypeScript swoops in like the helicopter parent we never knew we needed, wrapping us in a warm blanket of strict typing and whispering "there, there, I won't let the bad implicit conversions hurt you anymore." DRAMATIC RESCUE COMPLETE! 💅

Look at that URL parameter: isGina=false . Some developer really said "let's just hardcode user identity in the query string" and called it a day. Security through obscurity at its finest! Next time Gina forgets her password, she just needs to hack the URL to isGina=true and boom—instant access. Who needs authentication when you can just tell the system who you are? Somewhere a security engineer is having a panic attack while the intern who wrote this is proudly adding "implemented user authentication system" to their resume.