I Fear No Man... Except CORS Error

The AUDACITY of my brain to think I can build a full-stack AI-powered blockchain app with real-time everything when I can barely remember how to center a div! 💀 The gap between my grandiose vision and my actual knowledge is so vast you could fit the entire npm registry in it. Meanwhile, I'm over here Googling "how to exit vim" for the 47th time while my project plan looks like it was written by a tech CEO during a fever dream.

My bank account is stopping me. That and the fact that my significant other would immediately file for divorce if I transformed our living room into NASA Mission Control. The hilarious reality gap between developer fantasies and financial constraints is the silent antagonist of every programmer's story. We're out here calculating if we can afford another mechanical keyboard while this setup requires a second mortgage. The irony? Most of us would just use it to run VS Code and Stack Overflow anyway.

The death spiral of Stack Overflow begins! That sharp nosedive right after ChatGPT's release isn't just a graph—it's the sound of millions of developers closing their "how to center a div" tabs. Why spend 20 minutes getting roasted by forum veterans when AI will give you the answer without judging your life choices? Stack Overflow: where questions were answered with "Did you even try Google?" Now we're all asking ChatGPT, "Can you fix my garbage code?" and it politely says "Certainly!" instead of "Delete your IDE."

Ah, the irony of modern web development. First panel: "How to make a responsive website" - presented with all the confidence of someone who just discovered media queries yesterday. Second panel: The same "expert's" actual website demanding you increase your window size or switch to desktop because apparently their definition of "responsive" is "works exclusively on screens the size of a small billboard." Nothing says frontend expertise quite like telling mobile users their devices are the problem. The digital equivalent of "you're holding it wrong."

Calling HTML a programming language is like calling a hammer a power tool. The father's reaction is the software industry's collective response to anyone who thinks markup is actual programming. That "10 seconds to get off my property" hits harder than a stack overflow error at 4:59 PM on a Friday. Real programmers would rather debug a recursive function than listen to someone brag about their HTML "coding skills."

The eternal battle of complexity vs. simplicity in web development! On the left, we've got a modern "state-of-the-art" Next.js app with all its fancy LLMS assistance—probably 200MB of node_modules and 17 different build steps just to show "Hello World." Meanwhile, on the right, that dusty Perl CGI script from the 90s is still chugging along on some forgotten server, handling thousands of requests without breaking a sweat. Sure, the code might look like someone headbutted a keyboard, but it WORKS. And that's the punchline—both ultimately do the same thing, despite one being wrapped in layers of modern complexity. The old guard didn't have Stack Overflow or AI assistants—they had coffee, determination, and a manual. Built different indeed.