The Slash That Broke The CORS

Initial joy: "Oh look, my favorite app updated!" Five minutes later: *staring at completely redesigned UI where nothing makes sense anymore, features you actually used are gone, and somehow the app is now 3x slower* Nothing quite like that special feeling when developers "fix" something that wasn't broken. Remember when you could just launch an app without having to relearn it every two weeks? Those were the days.

The eternal struggle of every developer who's ever been in a sales meeting. That spinning wheel of doom in your brain when the sales team proudly announces they've promised a client a feature that exists only in their imagination. Meanwhile, you're mentally calculating how many all-nighters and caffeine-fueled coding sessions it'll take to manifest this fantasy into reality before the "reasonable deadline" they've also promised. Nothing like building the airplane while it's already carrying passengers!

When backend devs try frontend, you get a command-line interface masquerading as a GUI. A menu with numbers? Revolutionary! Meanwhile, frontend devs attempting backend produce nothing but the digital equivalent of a dumpster fire - just a 500 error staring back at you like it's your fault. The universal law of dev teams: stay in your lane or watch everything burn spectacularly. Cross-discipline coding is basically volunteering for public humiliation.

Poor kid being dragged into JavaScript by divorcing parents. It's like being forced to learn type coercion when all you wanted was a stable childhood. The yellow abyss of JS awaits below - where undefined is sometimes null but never equal to it, and "2" + 2 = "22" because... reasons. The parents might reconcile someday, but that trauma of callback hell stays forever.

Having a single .env file? Reasonable. Having nine different environment files with conflicting naming conventions? That's just asking for a 3 AM production outage when you can't remember if the database password is in .env.production , .env.production.local , or that random file you created six months ago after three energy drinks. The real security feature is that even you can't find your own secrets anymore.

Ah yes, the classic corporate love triangle. CEOs staring longingly at the shiny new AI walking by, completely ignoring the loyal developers who've been building their products for half a decade. Nothing says "thanks for your service" like being dumped for the hot new technology that probably can't even center a div properly. Those 5-year veterans are sitting there with their legacy code knowledge while the boss is already planning the AI wedding. Commitment issues much?