Web Development: Then Vs. Now

Ah, JavaScript's type coercion strikes again! The top panel shows the horror of seeing 1 + 1 + 1 = 111 instead of 3. The middle panel reveals the dark side of the force: adding quotation marks turns numbers into strings, causing concatenation instead of addition. This is why senior devs wake up screaming at night. In JavaScript, "1" + "1" + "1" happily gives you "111" because strings gonna string. Meanwhile, proper languages are watching from a distance, shaking their heads in disappointment. The final panel shows the acceptance phase of grief that every JS developer eventually reaches. You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain who writes parseInt() everywhere just to be safe.

The classic "let me know if you need anything else" client interaction has reached its final form. Some non-technical person casually asking you to "write my entire app" while they nap is the modern equivalent of "can you fix my printer while you're here?" Except now they want you to build the next Facebook during their power nap. The sinister wojak response is every developer's inner monologue when clients have absolutely no concept of time, effort, or reality. We smile politely while internally plotting to make their app harvest data and addict users... because that's totally how programming works, right?

Nothing says "this conference isn't leaving your laptop" like a localhost URL. VibeCon: where the only attendees are you, your terminal, and that one bug you've been ignoring for months. The future date is a nice touch—gives you plenty of time to fix your imposter syndrome before attending a conference that exists exclusively on your machine. Pro tip: you can still expense the coffee.

Ah yes, the indie hacker paradox. Building that revolutionary SaaS app that will "disrupt the industry" while simultaneously avoiding anything resembling actual employment. The dream isn't to work—it's to create a passive income stream so you can post beach laptop photos on Twitter while your Stripe notifications fund your avocado toast. Six months later, you're still "pre-revenue" but have strong opinions about VC funding.

The bell curve of developer intelligence strikes again! On both ends of the IQ spectrum, you've got the enlightened ones chanting "Everything is CRUD" with peaceful smiles. Meanwhile, the poor souls in the middle are sweating bullets about "complex architectures and states" while their hair falls out. It's the perfect representation of how programming wisdom comes full circle. Beginners think everything is just Create, Read, Update, Delete. Then you "evolve" into overengineering everything with state machines and microservices. Finally, after years of maintenance hell, you reach nirvana: "Wait, this all could've been a simple CRUD app." The true galaxy brains know that 90% of software is just moving data around in fancy costumes.

Ah yes, the infamous [object Object] — JavaScript's way of saying "I tried to convert an object to a string and failed spectacularly." Some poor developer forgot to extract the actual email property and just dumped the entire user object into the template. Now Virgin Media's customer is being addressed as a literal JavaScript error. Nothing says "we value your business" like exposing your serialization bugs in customer communications. This is why we can't have nice things in production.