Make Webdev Great Again

Every programmer knows that dark journey. You start innocently searching for "how to center a div" and three hours later you're watching a tutorial on creating realistic fur shaders in WebGL by some guy who sounds like he hasn't slept in four days. The search for animation references is just the beginning of the rabbit hole that leads you to the disturbing underbelly of programming tutorials where people implement sorting algorithms with interpretive dance and explain pointer arithmetic while dressed as anime characters. The YouTube algorithm knows your weakness—it's not cat videos, it's "uncomfortably enthusiastic dev explaining RegEx at 3am."

The evolution of RAM-hungry applications, illustrated by increasingly fancy Winnie the Pooh: First, we blame Windows for hogging our RAM. Then Chrome enters the chat with its tab-per-gigabyte appetite. Discord slides in with its "simple chat app" that somehow needs more resources than early space missions. Firefox joins the party pretending to be the lightweight alternative while silently devouring your memory. And then there's Visual Studio 2022 – the final boss of RAM consumption. The IDE that makes you question if you really need both kidneys or if selling one for more RAM might be a sensible career investment. The real joke? We keep buying more RAM instead of demanding better software. Stockholm syndrome, developer edition.

Ah, the emotional hierarchy of suffering! Girls cried over Titanic, boys over Fast & Furious, but web developers? They shed tears over the unholy hex code #663399 aka "Rebecca Purple." For the uninitiated, Rebecca Purple was named in memory of Eric Meyer's daughter and became an official CSS color. But any frontend dev who's spent hours trying to match a designer's exact shade of purple, only to discover it's off by one hex value in production, knows true pain. Nothing says "existential crisis" like debugging a CSS color inconsistency across browsers at 3am while questioning every career choice that led to this moment.

The duality of developer existence in its purest form. We'll spend hours complaining about our deteriorating spines from sitting all day, then immediately contort ourselves into positions that would make a pretzel jealous. Nothing says "I'm debugging a production issue" quite like becoming a human question mark while coding at 2AM. Ergonomic chair manufacturers weep silently as we defeat their entire industry by sitting literally any way except the intended one. Somehow our bodies find peak coding efficiency when we're twisted like a DNA helix. The worse the posture, the better the code – it's basically science at this point.

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 corporate world's obsession with AI has reached peak absurdity. Top image: CEO strutting around with sunglasses, basking in the glory of launching "the next revolutionary AI code editor" that probably just autocompletes semicolons. Bottom image: The actual dev team proudly showcasing their groundbreaking innovation—a new theme, one lonely extension, and the same VS Code we've been using since forever. Because why fix what's profitable when you can just slap "AI" on the marketing slides and watch the venture capital roll in?