The Slash That Broke The CORS

The universal startup formula: someone with zero technical knowledge but a "revolutionary idea" chasing down the nearest programmer they can find. "I'll handle the business side" translates to "I'll take 90% equity while you build the entire product." The programmer's running away is the most technically accurate part of the whole scenario. Just another day where someone thinks their Uber-but-for-dog-walkers concept is worth billions while the implementation is apparently just "some coding stuff."

The universal scapegoat of our generation has arrived. When the production server catches fire at 3 AM and your phone rings, nothing beats the sweet relief of saying "Sorry, it's a Cloudflare problem" with that smug little smile. Cloudflare—taking the blame so you don't have to since 2010. The perfect excuse to go back to sleep while someone else's engineering team deals with the dumpster fire. And the best part? Sometimes it's actually true!

When HTML sneaks into your programming language meeting and tries to act like it belongs. The bread loaves represent actual programming languages with compilers and interpreters, while HTML is just markup sitting there like "yes fellow programming languages, I too execute code." The cat's face says it all—pure impostor syndrome. No wonder it's called "Amung Us"—HTML is the sus one trying to blend in with the real programming crew!

The eternal WebP struggle summed up in one SpongeBob meme. You've got a fancy new image format that's supposed to be the future of the web - smaller file sizes, better quality, what's not to love? Then reality hits. Everything claims to support WebP until you actually try to use it. "Oh yes, our platform handles WebP!" they say confidently. But when you actually attempt to upload one, suddenly it's "PNG/JPG ONLY" like you're some kind of digital criminal for trying to use modern technology. Five years of hearing "WebP is the future!" and I'm still converting everything back to JPG because some random API decides WebP is too exotic. Classic case of "we support it" vs "we actually tested it."

The four horsemen of the programming apocalypse, depicted as Squirtle from Pokémon. Let's be honest, without Stack Overflow we'd all be unemployed. W3Schools is where we pretend to learn before copying code. Indian YouTube tutorials have saved more projects than version control. And coffee? That's just liquid debugging fluid. The lone programmer stands against these four dependencies, knowing full well they'll use all of them before lunch.

Ah, the classic "Google search suggestions" meme with Pepe looking concerned. Nothing like society's collective search history to remind us where we stand in the pecking order. After 20 years in this industry, I can confirm we're all just weird losers who jump at the sound of a production alert. The "not engineers" one hits particularly hard for those of us who spent $100K on CS degrees only to be told "real engineers build bridges." The truth hurts, but at least we can afford therapy with our six-figure salaries that we spend entirely on mechanical keyboards and energy drinks.