Every New Desktop App Dev Be Like

Ah, the classic "it's not a bug, it's a feature" taken to its logical conclusion. This meme perfectly captures the rage-inducing moment when your favorite app decides that the function you relied on daily was actually "cluttering the interface" or some other corporate nonsense. One day you're happily using a feature, the next day it's gone, and the changelog cheerfully announces it as an "improvement." The tank in the lake represents our sunken hopes and dreams of software that doesn't randomly amputate useful parts of itself.

When your code finally runs after 48 hours of debugging, but you've lost all will to live in the process. That "Myself" button is looking mighty tempting after staring at a missing semicolon for two days straight. The irony of requesting your own death certificate online is the perfect metaphor for what happens when you deploy to production on a Friday afternoon. At least the UI is straightforward—unlike that legacy codebase you inherited.

The inverse relationship between screen real estate and corporate hierarchy is the tech world's unspoken truth. CEOs swagger around with nothing but an iPhone because they've successfully delegated all actual work to the poor souls with dual monitors running 16 Chrome tabs, 3 IDEs, and Slack simultaneously. The corporate food chain is measured in pixels—the more you stare at, the further you are from the executive bathroom. Nothing says "I make the real decisions" like having your entire digital workspace fit in your pocket while you're golfing.

Looks like someone found the perfect place to express their framework frustrations! Some disgruntled developer decided public transportation was the ideal canvas to air their grievances about React. That moment when your component won't rerender properly, and suddenly vandalizing a bus seat seems like a perfectly reasonable response. The backend devs are probably sitting somewhere nodding in silent approval while muttering "just use vanilla JavaScript" under their breath. Honestly, who needs therapy when you can just write passive-aggressive graffiti about JavaScript libraries on public property?

Your elegant 20-line function at the top (the cat) vs the absolute monstrosity of dependencies it requires to run (the overloaded truck). That tiny NPM package you installed? Surprise! It just downloaded half the internet into your node_modules folder. Your hard drive is crying, your CI pipeline is timing out, and somewhere a data center is spinning up another server just to store your "hello world" app. And you're still missing that ONE dependency that actually matters.

The brutal lifecycle of a Stack Overflow question: First panel: Innocent developer posts a question. Zero votes, zero answers. The crowd watches silently, judging. Second panel: Question gets downvoted to -1. Still zero answers. One brave soul steps forward... only to mark it as a duplicate of some obscure thread from 2011. Third panel: Developer is still stuck at -1 votes, zero answers, but now with bonus emotional damage! Meanwhile, the Stack Overflow elite continue their sacred duty of protecting the site from the horror of *checks notes* people asking questions. Nothing builds character like having your "how do I center a div" question closed as "not focused enough" by someone with a 6-digit reputation score.