I Was There, Son. I Was There.

Remember when FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) was the dream destination for every code monkey with a computer science degree? Well, move over grandpa, because now it's all about GAYMAN - Google, Amazon, Y(ahoo?), Meta, Apple, Nvidia. The tech landscape shifts faster than my git branch strategy. These six horsemen of the apocalypse now control whether your resume gets tossed in the bin or your salary hits six figures. Funny how we measure our worth by which corporate logo sits on our LinkedIn profile. Peak capitalism wrapped in RGB lighting.

The AUDACITY of Microsoft to keep Internet Explorer on life support through Edge's "IE mode" is the tech equivalent of your ex refusing to delete your number! Web developers thought they'd finally escaped the nightmare of IE compatibility, only to find it lurking in Edge like that horror movie villain who JUST. WON'T. DIE. The look of pure trauma on developers' faces when a client says "But it needs to work in IE mode" is absolutely priceless. We've moved from writing code to writing therapy journal entries about our browser PTSD!

The infamous Kermit meme perfectly captures the bizarre inversion of productivity that happens after graduation. As a student, you'll pull all-nighters coding entire applications from scratch, fueled by nothing but Red Bull and sheer determination. Fast forward to corporate life, where writing 10 lines of code after three meetings about the meetings you'll have tomorrow feels like a Herculean achievement. "Enough for today!" isn't laziness—it's the soul-crushing realization that your coding velocity is now measured in corporate bureaucracy units rather than actual output. The professional world has a way of turning coding marathons into careful sprints through documentation quicksand.

This meme is playing on the Git version control system's terminology where the default branch was traditionally called "master" before many organizations changed it to "main" for more inclusive language. The joke suggests an executive order to revert back to using "master" branch, presented as if it's a controversial political decree. Perfect for developers who've lived through the Great Branch Rename Drama of 2020 and still have strong opinions about it. The real comedy is that some devs probably spent more time arguing about branch names than actually writing code!

The classic "manually update copyright year" panic has finally been defeated! Instead of sweating bullets every January when you realize all your websites still say "© 2024," this galaxy-brain solution fetches the current year from an API. The weak doge is the traditional approach of hardcoding "2024" and crying when you forget to update it. Meanwhile, the buff doge represents the enlightened developer who wrote a fetch request to dynamically pull the current year. The irony? Creating an entire API call with promise chains and JSON parsing just to get a value that's available with new Date().getFullYear() . Talk about bringing a tactical nuke to a knife fight!

The eternal confusion of "MVP" - to an athlete, it's "Most Valuable Player." To the exhausted dev who just shipped a barely functional prototype at 3am, it's "Minimum Viable Product." The hollow smile of that software engineer says it all... "Thanks for recognizing my rushed code held together by Stack Overflow answers and prayers." Same acronym, vastly different levels of glory.