From Building Cool Things to Three-Hour ESLint Standoffs

Description

A 'how it started / how it's going' two-panel meme using Squid Game stills of actor Lee Jung-jae. Left panel, labeled 'how it started': his character beaming with a wide smile against a pink wall, captioned in red text 'I want to build cool things'. Right panel, labeled 'how it's going': the same character later in the series - gaunt, long-haired, bearded, and hollow-eyed - captioned 'arguing with eslint for 3 hours'. The meme contrasts the idealism of starting a coding career with the soul-grinding reality of fighting linter rules, config files, and tooling instead of actually building anything

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LintingRules ToolingFrustration JavaScriptEcosystem DeveloperFrustration Javascript YakShaving ConfigurationFile ProductivityLoss PopCultureReference

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Three hours in, you finally win the argument with ESLint the only way anyone ever has: // eslint-disable-next-line - the technical debt equivalent of paying the ransom

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Three hours in, you finally win the argument with ESLint the only way anyone ever has: // eslint-disable-next-line - the technical debt equivalent of paying the ransom
Anonymous

The feature still doesn't exist, but its nonexistent semicolons are now policy-compliant.
@misesOnWheels 2mo

EcmaSlop does it again
@achobine 2mo

I'm actually doing this. Scraping shit with fully vibecoded scripts is fun
@nyxiereal 2mo

Just use Go