True Story

The eternal struggle of modern web development: Your actual app code is a measly 300kb, but somehow you're lugging around 12GB of node_modules like some kind of digital pack mule. Nothing says "efficient coding" like needing 40,000x more space for dependencies than your actual product. And we wonder why our laptops sound like they're preparing for takeoff every time we run npm install .

The gap between how we imagine our coding abilities versus what we actually produce is wider than the Jurassic period. Left side: majestic T-Rex ready to dominate. Right side: that offline Chrome dinosaur game you play when your internet dies. At least the pixelated version still technically runs, which is more than I can say for half my projects.

Remember when we used to manipulate the DOM with jQuery like it was some kind of magical superpower? Those were the days... Tom (vanilla JavaScript) chasing Jerry (jQuery) around the codebase, trying to catch that sweet syntax sugar that made everything so much easier. Now we've got React, Vue, and Angular while jQuery sits in the corner collecting dust like that USB stick with your first website. Pour one out for the library that saved us from IE6 compatibility nightmares and made us feel like wizards for writing $('#myElement').fadeIn() instead of 17 lines of vanilla JS.

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

Ah, the classic programming trivia game that's trolling newbies! The answer is obviously "Hello, world" (highlighted in green), but the joke's in the other options. "Git gud" is both a gaming taunt AND a version control pun. "Download Linux" is what every Stack Overflow answer suggests when you have a Windows problem. And "Error 404" is what your career becomes after forgetting a semicolon. The title "Git Gud" is extra spicy because it's telling beginners they need to master Git (arguably more terrifying than any algorithm).

HONEY, THE HOLY WAR IS BACK ON! 💅 The Drake meme perfectly captures the MOST DRAMATIC coding debate of all time - tabs vs. spaces! Some poor soul is clearly REJECTING tabs with the disgust of someone who found a hair in their artisanal coffee, while EMBRACING spaces like it's the last lifeboat on the Titanic. The audacity! The drama! The sheer PETTINESS of it all! And yet, careers have literally ended over this formatting feud. Friendships SHATTERED. Git commits REVERTED. All because someone hit Tab instead of pressing space four times like a CIVILIZED HUMAN BEING.