The Slash That Broke The CORS

That moment when you frantically search for a solution to your coding problem, only to discover you already solved it in the past and completely forgot. The ultimate digital déjà vu! It's like your past self left a breadcrumb trail for your future confused self. The coding circle of life isn't about knowing everything—it's about forgetting you knew something and then rediscovering your own genius. Stack Overflow: where you occasionally meet yourself from six months ago who was somehow smarter than current you.

First day as a web developer: *IDE shows Internet Explorer compatibility error* "MY GOD THE SITE IS BROKEN!" Five years later: *same error appears* "Anyway..." The career progression of a frontend dev can be measured precisely by how dead inside you become when IE throws another tantrum. Eventually you just develop that thousand-yard stare and keep coding.

The tiniest blue sliver in this pie chart is what actual programmer humor looks like. The massive orange chunk? That's just an endless loop of "Java bad, Python slow, JavaScript bad, senior developer is god" posts. It's basically r/programmerhumor in a nutshell—where original jokes go to die and recycled language wars thrive. The irony is that the people making these memes probably just finished their first "Hello World" tutorial and suddenly think they're qualified to roast entire programming languages. Next week they'll discover arrays and make a meme about how they start at 0.

The unsung hero behind every streaming platform's video processing! The meme brilliantly depicts a tower of popular media platforms (YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, TikTok, and yes... that adult site) all secretly powered by FFmpeg - the Swiss Army knife of multimedia processing that no one talks about. It's like finding out all your favorite restaurants secretly use the same magical kitchen tool. Media tech giants with billion-dollar valuations? Nah, just fancy UIs slapped on top of a free open-source library doing the heavy lifting!

Ah, the eternal tech cycle. A new library emerges and suddenly everyone's ready to toss their 300MB node_modules folder into the trash. HTMX promises the revolutionary concept of *checks notes* using HTML attributes to do AJAX. Meanwhile, React developers who've spent years mastering component lifecycles are quietly updating their résumés while muttering "it's just a phase." The full stack devs are playing both sides so they always come out on top. Classic framework warfare where the only winners are the people writing Medium articles about "Why I Switched From X to Y and Increased Performance by 9000%."

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of still Googling "how to center a div" after 15 YEARS in this profession! 😭 Your FBI agent went from concerned to downright DISAPPOINTED watching your frontend struggles persist through the decades. The audacity of CSS to remain so utterly HOSTILE after all these years! Centering a div is basically the developer equivalent of trying to fold a fitted sheet - theoretically possible but practically IMPOSSIBLE without selling your soul to the flex-box gods. Even senior developers with gray hair and mortgage payments are still copy-pasting display:flex from Stack Overflow like it's their first day. The struggle is ETERNAL!