If Git were a video game, git reset --hard would be the button that deletes your save file and sets your console on fire.

Yesterday, a junior developer looked at me with sheer terror in his eyes. He had just messed up a rebase and was staring at a screen full of conflict markers. He asked, "Do I need to memorize the entire Git documentation?"

There's a joke in the frontend world: Every 18 months, we have to relearn how to install dependencies.

From the nested hell of npm, to the flat revolution of yarn, to the hard-link magic of pnpm, and finally Bun—the speedster who doesn't play by the rules. I often stare at node_modules and wonder: