Folding Phones: The Web Developer's New Nightmare

The irony is strong with this one! Blocking ads while simultaneously wishing for higher pay as a web dev is like sawing off the branch you're sitting on. That snake eating its own tail (ouroboros) perfectly captures the self-defeating cycle we create. We build websites funded by ads, then personally ensure no one sees those ads, then wonder why clients won't pay us more. It's the digital equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot while complaining about the cost of shoes.

The classic tech recruiter bait-and-switch in its natural habitat! First they post for a fullstack React dev, then suddenly it's a desktop app, then just frontend, and finally—surprise!—they want a React Native mobile expert. And companies wonder why they can't find "qualified" candidates when they're playing job description roulette. It's like ordering a pizza and getting mad when the sushi chef can't make you tacos.

Just because you can write an operating system in JavaScript doesn't mean you should . But that won't stop some developers from trying and feeling like they've conquered Everest when they pull it off. It's that special brand of developer masochism where we deliberately choose the wrong tool for the job just to prove it's possible. Like using Excel for database management or CSS to solve math problems. The real punchline? Somewhere out there, a tech lead is adding "JavaScript OS experience" to their job requirements.

The classic Steam summer sale experience: your wallet wants to live, but Lord Gaben has other plans. Just as you're about to score those sweet discounts, the 503 Service Unavailable error appears. It's the digital equivalent of reaching for the last donut only to have the office manager slam the box shut. The servers aren't crashing because they can't handle the traffic—they're just giving your bank account a fighting chance.

When AI becomes your most honest code reviewer! GitHub Copilot just casually suggesting a function called getWorstFramework() that returns 'Angular'. The machine uprising isn't with killer robots—it's with sassy code assistants throwing shade at your framework choices. The real comedy here is that Copilot didn't hesitate for a millisecond before choosing violence. No diplomatic "it depends on your use case" nonsense—just straight-up framework assassination. And the 7,323 likes? That's just developers collectively saying "where's the lie though?"

Remember when we used to manipulate the DOM with jQuery like it was some kind of magical superpower? Those were the days... Tom (vanilla JavaScript) chasing Jerry (jQuery) around the codebase, trying to catch that sweet syntax sugar that made everything so much easier. Now we've got React, Vue, and Angular while jQuery sits in the corner collecting dust like that USB stick with your first website. Pour one out for the library that saved us from IE6 compatibility nightmares and made us feel like wizards for writing $('#myElement').fadeIn() instead of 17 lines of vanilla JS.