Blocked By CORS: Heaven's Firewall

PHP just refuses to die despite countless "PHP is dead" articles since 2010. It powers 77% of all websites and gets major version updates while newer, shinier languages come and go. The language that Facebook was built on somehow survives every tech apocalypse through sheer stubbornness. It's like that cockroach that would survive nuclear war - not pretty, but impressively resilient. WordPress alone ensures PHP will outlive us all.

The corporate tech meeting from hell. Two folks suggest superficial fixes like "color theory" and "enhanced GUI" while the third person—clearly the only one who's ever shipped anything—dares to suggest maybe, just maybe, the team needs actual time to innovate instead of endless sprints. Of course, he gets thrown out the window. Because in tech, suggesting we slow down and build something good is basically treason. Six years in the industry and I've never once seen a PM say "you know what, let's take a sprint off and fix our technical debt." Nope, just keep sprinting until your knees give out!

The circle of life in tech! Designers freaking out when devs use AI to make pretty UIs, while developers glare suspiciously when designers start generating code. It's the digital equivalent of "stay in your lane, bro." After 15 years in the industry, I've seen territorial battles over who gets to use which tools, but this AI turf war is next level. Soon we'll all just be prompt engineers yelling at each other about who wrote the better instruction set.

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute AUDACITY of reality! 😤 Social media: "Look at my MAGNIFICENT AI creation that practically wrote Shakespeare while cooking dinner!" *shows ethereal being sipping champagne* Meanwhile, the rest of us mere mortals are in the trenches with our AI like some deranged goblin creature, frantically typing "uhh maybe restart VS Code idk" while our dreams of technological transcendence CRUMBLE before our eyes! 💀 The expectation vs. reality gap isn't just wide—it's a GRAND CANYON of disappointment that's personally attacking me right now!

PHP has been declared dead more times than a character in a soap opera, yet it powers about 77% of the web. It's the tech equivalent of that one cockroach that survives nuclear winter. Modern frameworks like Laravel have given it life support, but developers still look at it with the same bewilderment as someone witnessing a zombie doing taxes. "It shouldn't be alive, but here we are."

Ah, the tech stack of modern civilization depicted as a Jenga tower that somehow hasn't collapsed yet. At the bottom, we've got ASML making the chips while C developers write dynamic arrays that would make any memory manager weep. The Linux Foundation holds up the entire internet while DNS occasionally decides whether your websites exist today. AWS and Cloudflare keep the lights on while unpaid open source developers silently prevent digital apocalypse. Meanwhile, AI sits there looking smug while Microsoft does... whatever it is Microsoft does these days. And there you are, somewhere in the middle of this precarious structure, just trying to make a web app that doesn't crash when someone types an emoji.