Your Friendly Neighborhood Web Developer

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Web Developer

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BEHOLD! The most DRAMATIC hierarchy of developer suffering ever witnessed! 💀

While SREs at unicorn startups and embedded engineers at major automakers are mingling at some fancy tech party, our poor web dev hero stands ALONE with his party hat, having just completed the MOST GRUELING task known to mankind — a website for a local mom & pop jewelry store!

The sheer AUDACITY of those tech elites to not understand the EMOTIONAL DAMAGE of explaining to Mrs. Jenkins why her nephew's "design ideas" won't work, or the EXISTENTIAL CRISIS of making a carousel that doesn't break on Internet Explorer! The TRAUMA of hearing "can you make the logo bigger" for the 47th time!

Neighborhood web devs are the UNSUNG HEROES battling in the trenches of client expectations while the tech elite sip their kombucha in their ergonomic chairs!

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