Being a software developer is clearly a sign of being either a masochist, or a sadist. There are no other reasonable conclusions.

Oh, wait. Unless you are an apologist. In which case I sorta atheistically still hope you've got a nice warm circle of hell waiting for you.

JavaScript so-called modules are the worst thing I've ever seen, because the resolution strategies are all really horribly bad ux, and because people continue to multiply the insanity seemingly every 6 months with some new slightly different approach to it all (systemjs vs. node vs. amd vs. etc.; webpack vs. babel vs. etc.) and then enough people seem to get on board with each insane little thing so that we end up with a nightmare of half-assed explanations about any given one, lots of hand waving, and me just getting nowhere. All I bloody wanted to do was spend 15 minutes actually writing code that freaking did something, but instead I am still dead in the water because of this utter insanity. Dust off and nuke the place from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!

Modules and namespaces and all that stuff in Typescript is a complete train wreck. I guess the JavaScript ecosystem is like 80% to blame for it, but Typescript does nothing that I can see to actually sanitize it so that there's any concise, good, rhyme or reason to it all. What a crock of junk the entire JavaScript ecosystem is. You can't put lipstick on a crock of poo and get anything other than poo wearing lipstick. I am hitting some weird compiler thing where adding imports breaks some code that was working fine. Looking in the Typescript issues shows at least a zillion things that are apparently wrong, or at least confusing, about the whole thing. Like: oh my freakin' g*d.

I guess I have never once used an online job (either as employer or employee) search site that wasn't a prime example of just about everything that is wrong with technology. (Probably Craigslist comes the closest to being minimally broken, but it suffers from not having as much posted on it?) It just seems all mind-bogglingly hilariously train-wreck-esque, in a comedic ouroboros technology-will-eat-itself kind of insanity. An insanity of technical emperor types with no actual clothing on. "I know! I'll start a startup to solve the problem of matching candidates with jobs!" Now you have, like, seven problems.

uh. yeah. Zelda? is good game design?! wtf? yeah, i really like still not knowing wtf i am supposed to do w/out looking it up online in a freaking walkthrough. i also like being stuck on a giant tall thing set up for me to keep falling off of so i die over and over. yeah. fun.

I know why we can't have nice things: Because "PC" architecture has led to small, slow, narrow buses, in theory compensated for by ever larger cached memories. What a crock of crap. Console architectures are so much more sane. Why should I have to fork out 2x the $$$ and waste 2x+ the electrons to shuffle things from main CPU RAM to GPU RAM (and sometimes back again)? It freaking kills me that drawing a freaking line is freaking rocket science now. Let alone if you want to draw a lot of them, and animate them.

you cannot escape from, or paper over, or gild, the crap. the crap is crap, and you are doomed. what a freaking nightmare.