Dad Jokes Meet Web Development

The bell curve of C programming knowledge is brutal truth wrapped in a meme. On the far left, you've got the blissfully ignorant newbie who thinks "printf is magic!" On the far right, the battle-hardened veteran who's seen enough pointer arithmetic to know that simplicity is king. But that middle peak? That's where the insufferable "I watched Fireship's 100-second video so I'm basically Dennis Ritchie now" crowd lives. They've memorized just enough syntax to be dangerous but not enough to realize they're one segfault away from disaster. The duality of programming education in 2024: either spend years mastering the craft or watch a YouTube video and call it a day.

Imagine a world where JavaScript developers have to pay a 20% tax every time they write import ! The economy would collapse faster than a poorly structured promise chain. The fake news chyron brilliantly mocks our dependency-addicted ecosystem where importing half the npm registry for a simple "Hello World" app is standard practice. Meanwhile, that chaos() function perfectly represents what would happen to the dev community if we actually had to pay for our import habits. I'm just waiting for the black market npm packages and the underground import smuggling rings to form. "Psst, kid... want some lodash functions? First one's free."

The stereotype has officially achieved boss-level status. After 15 years in the industry, I've watched countless devs disappear into the coding void only to emerge with new GitHub profiles and anime avatars. The pipeline from "I'll just fix this one bug" to "3AM coding sessions fueled by energy drinks while questioning existence" is basically industry standard at this point. Your IDE becomes your personality and your commit history your social life. The real secret gender is clearly "programmer with 27 unfinished side projects."

OMG, the absolute STATE of web development in 2023! 💀 JavaScript has literally CONQUERED THE ENTIRE STACK like some power-hungry dictator! Front-end? JavaScript. Back-end? ALSO JavaScript. Database? You'd think we'd draw the line somewhere, but NOPE - straight to JavaScript with MongoDB and its JSON documents! It's like watching JavaScript stage a hostile takeover while other languages stand by helplessly. The web development world has fallen, and JavaScript is wearing all the medals now! Next thing you know, your toaster will be running Node.js! THE HORROR!

Oh, the sweet innocence of "I made a website with ChatGPT" followed by sending a local file path instead of a URL. That's like telling someone you're a chef because you microwaved a Hot Pocket. What we're witnessing here is the beautiful collision of Dunning-Kruger effect and file system confusion. Our friend thinks they've launched the next Facebook when they've really just saved an HTML file to their downloads folder. No server, no hosting, just pure unbridled confidence. The Windows file path is just *chef's kiss* perfect - nothing says "I'm a web developer" like trying to share C:\Users\ben\Downloads\index.html through iMessage.

Front-end developers are out here anthropomorphizing CSS properties like they're Pokémon. The joke is that each CSS property has a "full name" and an abbreviated "nickname" that devs use: text-emphasis-style: sesame → TESS shape-inside: auto → SIA text-orientation: mixed → TOM And then there's align-self: stretch who's clearly had it with this naming convention nonsense. The character is literally stretched vertically, looking miserable about the whole situation. Seven years into my career and I still have to Google "how to center a div" but sure, let's pretend we're on a first-name basis with these properties.