The Cookie Banner Conspiracy

The duality of a programmer's existence captured perfectly! At work, you're dragging yourself through another CRUD app with the enthusiasm of a sloth on sedatives. But start a side project? Suddenly you're coding at 3 AM with the intensity of someone possessed, creating an elaborate algorithm to optimize your cat's feeding schedule—which you'll abandon halfway through because you had a new idea for a command-line tool that generates haikus about garbage collection. The cemetery of unfinished GitHub repos grows larger every weekend.

The laziest SVG "conversion" known to mankind. Instead of actually converting the PNG to vector graphics, some genius just embedded the entire PNG image inside an SVG wrapper. It's like putting a hamburger inside a taco shell and calling it Mexican cuisine. The shocked cat perfectly captures how any self-respecting developer feels discovering this abomination in production code. Bonus points if this was done by the same person who puts all their CSS in a <style> tag at the bottom of each HTML file.

The sacred relationship between a developer and their IDE of choice. After years of customizing shortcuts, plugins, and themes until it's barely recognizable, you'd sooner switch careers than text editors. That "Pin to taskbar" option is basically a marriage proposal. The rest are just temporary flings you use when your main IDE crashes.

The eternal JavaScript ecosystem cycle in three acts: Act 1: "Oh no, I need to convert my perfectly functional JavaScript to TypeScript because the internet says so." *head explodes* Act 2: "Finally finished the TypeScript migration. My code is now bulletproof and I am a superior being." *smug satisfaction* Act 3: "Wait, the internet now says TypeScript is terrible and everyone's going back to JavaScript?" *head re-explodes* The only constant in web development is that whatever you just spent months implementing will be declared obsolete approximately 17 minutes after you finish.

Someone asks about the most psychologically messed up book, and a brave soul answers "Introduction to JavaScript." The cherry on top? Another user responds with pure horror: "Why would you even bring this up? You should be ashamed of yourself." Nothing traumatizes developers quite like remembering their first encounter with JavaScript's "undefined is not a function" errors and trying to understand why NaN !== NaN. The psychological damage is real – we're still in therapy for trusting the "==" operator.

Ah yes, the classic tech interview credential paradox, perfectly captured by "Former Child" as the only qualification. Nothing says "I can reverse a binary tree" quite like bragging that you've successfully completed the tutorial level of human existence. Tech companies want 5 years of experience in a framework that's 3 years old, but hey—I've been breathing for 25 years straight without a single outage! That's 99.9999% uptime, baby. Resume padding has never been so honest.