JSON With Comments: The Technically Correct Loophole

The expectation vs reality of programming career progression! First year: bright-eyed, hopeful, thinking you'll build the next billion-dollar app. Fourth year: slightly chubbier, dead inside, realizing you're just fixing the same bugs in legacy code while your IDE slowly consumes your RAM. The title "Made Alot Of Money" is the ultimate ironic cherry on top—because the only thing that's grown is your caffeine tolerance and collection of Stack Overflow bookmarks. The real money was the existential dread we accumulated along the way!

The eternal battle between developers and their RAM continues! This error message shows VS Code consuming a whopping 15GB of memory while Firefox has gone completely nuclear at 177GB. What's happening behind the scenes? VS Code is built on Electron, which essentially bundles an entire Chromium browser with your text editor. Each extension adds another layer of JavaScript execution, slowly transforming your lightweight code editor into a RAM-devouring monster. Meanwhile, Firefox has clearly transcended physical limitations by using more RAM than probably exists in the system. The irony is palpable - we're writing code to optimize memory usage while our tools are hoarding it like digital dragons.

The stereotype has officially achieved boss-level status. After 15 years in the industry, I've watched countless devs disappear into the coding void only to emerge with new GitHub profiles and anime avatars. The pipeline from "I'll just fix this one bug" to "3AM coding sessions fueled by energy drinks while questioning existence" is basically industry standard at this point. Your IDE becomes your personality and your commit history your social life. The real secret gender is clearly "programmer with 27 unfinished side projects."

Ah, the classic regex email validation bell curve. The sweet spot of sanity sits right in the middle where people use a simple EMAIL.CONTAINS('@') check and call it a day. On the low IQ end, you've got folks using the same basic check, blissfully unaware of the horrors that await. On the high IQ end, you've got the regex wizards who've stared into the abyss of RFC 5322 compliance and returned with that monstrosity at the top of the image. After 15 years in the industry, I've come to accept that email validation is like quicksand—the harder you fight for perfection, the deeper you sink. Just check for an @ symbol and move on with your life. Your sanity will thank you.

This is what happens when you open that project from your GitHub graveyard. That tangled mess of wires perfectly captures the horror of revisiting your old code—a chaotic nightmare that somehow worked but you have absolutely no idea how. The poor soul climbing into that disaster is all of us trying to add "just one small feature" to code we wrote before we knew better. It's like archaeological excavation, except instead of treasure you find comments like "//fix this later" and functions named "temp_solution_final_v3_ACTUALLY_FINAL".

The modern programmer's commute: rolling out of bed and crawling to the desk. This guy declaring "I AM HALF WAY TO WORK" while barely making it from his bed to his computer is the most accurate depiction of remote work I've seen. The physical distance is 6 feet, but the mental distance? Might as well be crossing the Sahara. Who needs a morning commute when the hardest part of your journey is convincing your body that pajamas are acceptable professional attire? The struggle is real—and so is the bed hair.