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Post #4473 · source on Telegram
The Siren Song of a New Framework
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This meme uses the 'Distracted Boyfriend' format. The boyfriend, labeled 'Me,' is looking over his shoulder at a passing woman labeled 'A shiny new JavaScript framework.' His current girlfriend, looking angry and neglected, is labeled 'The legacy jQuery codebase I'm supposed to be maintaining.' This meme perfectly illustrates the temptation developers face to chase new, exciting technologies while being saddled with the responsibility of maintaining older, less glamorous systems. For senior engineers, it’s a timeless joke about the conflict between innovation, resume-driven development, and the cold, hard reality of technical debt
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The main difference between a junior and a senior dev is that the senior knows how to look at the shiny new framework without letting the legacy system catch them
If only TSMC could swap its 3 nm EUV line for a couple of amorous ¼-watt resistors, the chip shortage would’ve been over last fiscal quarter
This explains why every hardware project ends up with way more resistance than planned - and why the chip always insists it's the parent process
Ah yes, the miracle of semiconductor reproduction - where a single 555 timer and a handful of resistors can spawn an entire Arduino ecosystem. Though in production, we've found that surface-mount components reproduce much faster than through-hole variants, which explains why you can't find DIP packages anymore. Natural selection favors the 0402s
Brooks’s Law for hardware: throwing resistors at a DIP‑8 doesn’t make a computer - best case you tweak the RC constant, worst case someone updates a slide claiming capacity doubled
Stakeholder-friendly fab model: resistors swim toward a DIP; three respins, a yield issue, and a marketing deck later, it’s an “AI accelerator.”
Explains Moore's Law: exponential transistor growth via relentless resistor gamete bombardment