The Corporate Website's Dirty Little Secret

Ah, the dependency economy strikes again! Nothing says "Make JavaScript Great Again" like slapping tariffs on all your package managers. 67% on NPM? That's how you end up with node_modules the size of Wyoming but still missing that one critical dependency. And Cargo at 90%? Rust developers about to start smuggling crates across the border. Meanwhile, Homebrew at just 14% is clearly the "very fine package manager on both sides." The only thing growing faster than these tariffs is your package-lock.json file.

Nothing says "I panicked during a coding interview" quite like writing FizzBuzz with three separate if statements and continue in each one. The interviewer's face progression from neutral to facepalm to disbelief is the universal reaction to code that technically works but makes seasoned developers want to throw their mechanical keyboards out the window. Pro tip: If your solution has more continue statements than actual logic, your future teammates are already updating their resumes.

The journey to becoming a "full stack developer" is basically collecting knowledge like Infinity Stones. You start with Frontend (React hooks, CSS nightmares), add Backend (database queries that make you question your life choices), then sprinkle in DevOps (because apparently knowing how to code isn't enough—you also need to know why your Docker container refuses to start at 3 AM). Each book represents years of pain, Stack Overflow tabs, and existential crises. But once you've mastered all three? You're not just a developer anymore—you're a one-person engineering department who gets to debug everything from button alignment issues to Kubernetes cluster failures. The "Finally, I have them all" moment hits different when you realize your job description now includes "and other duties as assigned" covering literally the entire tech stack.

Oh honey, the PTSD is REAL with this one. Before 2022, writing typos in your codebase was basically a death sentence—one wrong character and your entire application would explode into a fiery mess of runtime errors at 3 AM. But then TypeScript became the industry standard and suddenly everyone's living their best life with autocomplete, intellisense, and compile-time error checking catching every single embarrassing typo before it reaches production. Now you can confidently misspell variable names knowing your IDE will passive-aggressively underline them in red before you even hit save. The glow-up from stressed-out nightmare fuel to smug, carefree developer is CHEF'S KISS. Welcome to the future where your typos get bullied by a compiler instead of your users.

The eternal struggle between CSS and JavaScript in a nutshell! CSS knows with absolute certainty that links are purple after they've been visited (the :visited pseudo-class has traditionally defaulted to purple in browsers). Meanwhile, JavaScript is having an existential crisis thinking the link is blue, then questioning its own color perception abilities. Fun fact: JavaScript actually can't access the true styling of visited links for security reasons - browsers restrict this to prevent history sniffing attacks. So JS is literally colorblind when it comes to :visited links! Poor JavaScript, forever doomed to see unvisited styles only.

When someone assumes your 4 years of programming means you're an expert, but in reality you've just been googling Stack Overflow answers and praying your code works. *nervous cat noises* That awkward silence when you realize most of your "knowledge" is just knowing which error messages mean "you're totally screwed" versus "just restart your IDE." Four years in and still feeling like an imposter who accidentally fooled everyone into thinking you know what you're doing!