Will It Ever End?

Jeff Atwood's infamous prophecy that haunts backend developers' nightmares. What started as a joke in 2007 has become our reality - Electron apps, Node.js servers, and even freaking desktop operating systems running JavaScript. The language that was cobbled together in 10 days has somehow consumed everything in its path like some kind of unstoppable syntax blob. Resistance is futile. Your precious C++ application? Rewritten in JS. Your Java backend? Now it's Express. Your sanity? Long gone.

Nothing ages you faster than remembering when scrollbars were chunky, reliable parts of the browser window that just sat there doing their job. Now we've got these fancy disappearing overlays that show up for 0.5 seconds before fading away like your hopes of maintaining backward compatibility. The real tragedy? Watching the frog age from "young dev with bright eyes" to "senior engineer who's seen too many UI frameworks come and go" in the time it takes for browsers to decide scrollbars should be ephemeral experiences rather than functional UI elements.

That moment when your client emails a biblical scroll of "bugs" they found while using Internet Explorer 6 on their Windows XP fossil. Like Napoleon here, you're just staring into the abyss contemplating your life choices. What am I supposed to do? Build a time machine? The browser was discontinued in 2022 for a reason. No amount of CSS hacks or polyfills will save that trainwreck. But you'll still spend three days trying to fix it because the client pays your bills. Meanwhile, Chrome and Firefox users are having zero issues with your perfectly standards-compliant code.

The industry keeps inventing new terms to sell the same old drag-and-drop builders. First it was "low-code/no-code" platforms promising to make developers obsolete. Now it's "vibe code" - same cheap knockoff but with a trendy rebrand. It's like putting a fedora on a WYSIWYG editor and calling it innovative. Meanwhile, actual developers are sitting back watching management fall for buzzwords that'll be abandoned faster than a Git repository after the startup funding dries up.

The eternal developer quest: finding the perfect library! You start all excited about solving your problem, then you find something promising that checks all your boxes. But wait—the GitHub repo's last commit was during the Obama administration, and the only response to "Is this still maintained?" is tumbleweeds blowing across the issue tracker. That moment when you realize you've built your entire architecture on digital quicksand... and now you get to explain to your boss why you need another sprint to replace a "perfectly good solution" that's secretly held together with duct tape and prayers.

Google: "Create a strong password with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols" Me: *types "ChuckNorris"* Google: "Password is too strong" That's not a bug, it's a feature! Chuck Norris doesn't need special characters—he IS the special character. Password strength meters just surrender when they encounter his name. The system isn't broken; it's just acknowledging that no hacker would dare attempt to breach an account protected by the roundhouse kick of passwords.