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A lonely C++ programmer stands in the corner of a party, nursing a drink while contemplating memory management strategies. Meanwhile, the "vibe coders" and "latest JavaScript framework coders" are having the time of their lives, blissfully unaware that pointers even exist. It's like watching someone who knows how engines work watching TikTokers who think cars run on magic and good vibes. The C++ dev silently judges while manually freeing memory that nobody else even knows they're allocating.

Ah, the classic "if it's broken, just remove it" approach. Why fix a reversed scroll when you can just nuke the entire scrolling functionality? It's like responding to a flat tire by removing all the wheels. Problem solved... technically. No scroll, no scroll problems. Ship it.

Ah, the classic CSS battle against invisible elements. Setting z-index to 99999 is basically the frontend equivalent of yelling "COME OUT, I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!" at your monitor. Meanwhile, your div is probably hiding behind another element with position: relative that you forgot about three hours ago. The true villain isn't the z-index—it's the CSS stacking context that silently judges your desperate attempts at bringing elements forward. After eight years of frontend development, I've learned that no matter how big your z-index number is, there's always some parent container laughing at your pathetic attempts to control the layout.

The dystopian future is here! Picture this: You're coding away, but instead of just watching your cursor blink while your AI agent generates code, you're forced to watch ads about "10 Weird Tricks to Fix Merge Conflicts" and "Hot Singles in localhost Area." It's the perfect business model - you stare blankly at ads for questionable crypto projects while your AI assistant does all the work and burns through tokens that YOU pay for with your attention. Next up: IDEs that make you solve CAPTCHAs every time you want to compile. "Select all images with semicolons that should actually be commas."

Microsoft force-feeding developers their AI coding assistant like it's some miracle elixir. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, it's just regurgitating Stack Overflow answers and GitHub repos that developers wrote in the first place. The circle of code life - write code, have it scraped, then pay to have it suggested back to you. Nature is healing.

When RAM prices quadruple in less than a year and your entire business model is "just download more Chrome tabs," you're gonna have a bad time. Electron devs watching their apps go from "slightly bloated" to "mortgage payment" in system requirements. That sweating guy meme face says it all—they're out here shipping desktop apps that bundle an entire Chromium browser just to display a to-do list, and now users need to take out a loan to afford the RAM. For context: Electron lets you build desktop apps with web technologies, which is convenient but notoriously memory-hungry since each app basically runs its own browser instance. When RAM was cheap, nobody cared. Now? Your Slack, Discord, and VS Code are collectively eating more resources than a small data center.