I Am An Indie Hacker

The perfect embodiment of visiting r/ProgrammerHumor expecting to find sophisticated web development jokes, only to discover it's 90% "CSS bad" and "JavaScript weird" posts. That cat's face captures the exact moment of realization that what passes for "web dev humor" is just the same recycled jokes about centering divs and callback hell. The disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Schrödinger's Developer: simultaneously alive enough to fill out an online death certificate form, yet dead enough to need one. The ultimate edge case that no UX designer anticipated! How exactly is a deceased person supposed to select "Myself" here? This is what happens when you skip those user stories about zombies during sprint planning. Next up: the form probably asks for your email to send confirmation that you're successfully dead.

Ah, the classic "fix everything with CSS z-index: 9999" approach. When that UI element just won't stay on top, crank that z-index to astronomical levels instead of fixing the actual stacking context. It's like using duct tape to patch the Titanic. Sure, it works... until someone else adds their element with z-index: 10000 and the arms race begins. The true mark of a desperate frontend dev on a Friday at 4:55 PM.

The eternal cycle of developer enthusiasm. Top frame: joyfully playing with the shiny new project while completely ignoring last week's project drowning right next to you. Bottom frame: your GitHub graveyard—a haunting underwater boneyard of abandoned repositories that will never see a commit again. The real horror isn't the code quality; it's the commitment issues.

Ah, the eternal blame game. That terrifying red demon is basically every backend developer when the frontend folks casually suggest their pristine code isn't the problem. After 15 years in this industry, I've witnessed this exact scenario play out weekly—complete with the backend dev transforming into a mythological rage beast. The funniest part? Both sides are usually running the same broken API call, but somehow it's always "working on my machine." Meanwhile, DevOps is in the corner eating popcorn watching the carnage unfold.

This meme perfectly captures the evolution of "epics" in software development with the classic "then vs now" format using the Doge meme. On the left side ("Epics then"), we see a muscular, heroic Doge dressed as a Greek warrior with a lengthy epic poem from Homer's Iliad - representing how epics used to be grand, detailed narratives with elaborate scope and planning. On the right side ("Epics now"), there's just a regular Doge with the simple request "plz add a button" - hilariously showing how modern software development "epics" have been watered down to sometimes include trivial tasks that hardly deserve such an important-sounding classification. This perfectly captures the frustration many developers feel when working with agile methodologies where the term "epic" (meant to represent a large body of work) is often misused for simple feature requests. It's also poking fun at how project management terminology gets diluted over time in real-world practice.