I Am An Indie Hacker

Behold the eternal keyboard shortcut debate! Top panel: Rejecting the efficient Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V combo like it's some amateur hour nonsense. Bottom panel: Gleefully embracing the absolutely ridiculous Ctrl+C+C+C+C+C/Ctrl+V approach because... who doesn't love hammering that C key 5 times just to be extra sure you've copied something? It's like buying five backup drives for a 2KB text file. The paranoia is real—and frankly, relatable. That text isn't truly copied until you've mashed C enough times to risk carpal tunnel.

When your code says "Error on line 265" but line 265 is just a single curly brace. The absolute betrayal! That innocent little "}" sitting there, taking the blame for someone else's crimes. Meanwhile, the REAL culprit is probably a missing semicolon from 200 lines ago that's been silently plotting your downfall since coffee break. JavaScript's idea of a practical joke is to make debugging feel like trying to find a ninja in a dark room.

HTML sitting there with the actual programming languages like it belongs. Nice try, markup language. You're just fancy text with delusions of grandeur. Next thing you know, CSS will want voting rights too.

Trying to center a div is the modern equivalent of solving Fermat's Last Theorem. Eight hours of tweaking margin: 0 auto; , display: flex; , justify-content: center; , and sacrificing your firstborn to the CSS gods—yet that stubborn element still sits 2 pixels off-center. The tears aren't from sadness; they're from realizing you could've built an entire backend service in the time you've spent fighting with a rectangle that refuses to behave.

Ah, the ancient battle between CSS debugging techniques. At the top, we have the rookie move: slapping a border: 1px solid red; on everything to see where your elements are breaking. But below, the true enlightened approach: console.log() – because why visually identify problems when you can dump 47 objects into your console and pretend you're actually reading them? After two decades in this industry, I've evolved from red borders to console logs and back to red borders at least 600 times. The circle of debugging life continues.

The perfect illustration of how a $5,000 website magically transforms into a $50 project after six layers of outsourcing! This is basically the tech industry's version of telephone game, except everyone's wallet gets progressively lighter. What starts with a clueless business owner willing to shell out thousands ends with some poor developer in India coding an entire website for the price of a pizza. Meanwhile, every middleman takes their cut while adding zero value except the phrase "I know a guy." And the best part? The original client still has no idea when their website will be ready. Spoiler alert: it won't be.