How Your Webdev Boyfriend Makes Money

JavaScript: "NaN stands for 'Not A Number'" Also JavaScript: typeof NaN returns 'number' This is peak JavaScript energy right here. The language literally created a special value to tell you something isn't a number, then categorized it as a number. It's like labeling a vegetarian dish "Contains No Meat" and listing the first ingredient as beef. Just another day in JS wonderland where nothing makes sense and we're all pretending it's fine.

The 2:34 AM text message that ruins your sleep cycle faster than a memory leak. Nothing says "professional workplace" like getting blasted for missing a meeting you weren't even invited to, followed by a critique of your commit messages that could've waited until business hours. The cherry on top? That passive-aggressive "YOLO" sign-off. Because nothing screams "I'm a reasonable team lead" like sending career threats via text message in the middle of the night and ending with 2010's most overused acronym. This is why developers keep their phones on silent and their resumes updated.

Ah, the eternal tech cycle. A new library emerges and suddenly everyone's ready to toss their 300MB node_modules folder into the trash. HTMX promises the revolutionary concept of *checks notes* using HTML attributes to do AJAX. Meanwhile, React developers who've spent years mastering component lifecycles are quietly updating their résumés while muttering "it's just a phase." The full stack devs are playing both sides so they always come out on top. Classic framework warfare where the only winners are the people writing Medium articles about "Why I Switched From X to Y and Increased Performance by 9000%."

Backend developers looking at CSS like it's some cursed ancient artifact that might summon demons if handled incorrectly. The sheer disgust on that pirate's face says it all - he'd rather walk the plank than deal with margin collapsing or flexbox. Typical backend attitude: "I can build an entire microservice architecture, but don't ask me to center a div."

The existential dread every developer knows too well! When your entire coding strategy is "someone smarter than me must have solved this already," encountering an unsolved problem is like finding out Santa isn't real. That moment when you've gone 47 pages deep into Google results, tried every obscure forum, and Stack Overflow has nothing but crickets. Suddenly you're faced with the horrifying prospect of having to... *gasp*... solve a problem using your own brain! The nuclear option of "just use a different tech stack" is both completely irrational and somehow totally reasonable to the sleep-deprived developer mind. Because clearly the problem isn't our approach—it's the entire technology that's wrong!

When that recruiter message from 5 months ago suddenly becomes relevant because your current project is imploding! The five-month gap between "I am looking for a person to build a data or webdev project with" and the developer's sudden interest is the digital equivalent of finding that one sock you lost two years ago—right when you've given up and thrown away its partner. Nothing says "my current situation has dramatically deteriorated" quite like revisiting ancient LinkedIn messages with newfound enthusiasm. That "Why lol" response is basically code for "my Git repository is on fire and my boss just asked if I've updated my resume recently."