Am I Testing This Code Or Is It Testing Me?

The duality of a programmer's existence in one perfect meme. Taking notes? That's for people who think they'll actually read them again. Meanwhile, the true coding warriors just slam their keyboards, write incomprehensible code at 2AM, and trust their future self to figure it out with nothing but cryptic variable names and zero comments. The confidence is breathtaking. The hubris is magnificent. The inevitable Stack Overflow search three weeks later when you have no idea what your own code does? Priceless.

Content If you ever feel useless, just remember this code catch (error) throw error;

Content ERROR IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS, THE CODE 15 IN WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AN UNREACHABLE STATE. I COULD GIVE YOU ADVICE FOR WHAT TO DO. BUT HONESTLY, WHY SHOULD YOU TRUST ME? I CLEARLY SCREWED THIS UP. I'M WRITING A MESSAGE THAT SHOULD NEVER APPEAR, YET I KNOW IT WILL PROBABLY APPEAR SOMEDAY. ON A DEEP LEVEL, I KNOW I'M NOT UP TO THIS TASK. IM SO SORRY. NEVER WRITE ERROR MESSAGES TiRED.

Ah, the ancient art of developer revenge. That guy who said "it's all in the documentation" before quitting? Yeah, he left you hieroglyphics. Nothing says "figure it out yourself" quite like documentation that requires a Rosetta Stone to decipher. The best part? He's probably sipping margaritas somewhere, giggling every time he imagines you staring at his "comprehensive notes" with that thousand-yard debug stare. This is why exit interviews should include a documentation sanity check and why we all secretly fear the phrase "Bob was the only one who understood that system."

Content Tom Scott tomscott Working on code for a new project. 20:20 What I should do: learn the new state-of-the-art, figure out how to run this as a "serverless" system in The Cloud. What I'm actually doing: fixing up decade-old PHP code, because it works, I trust it, and I know how to fix it if it breaks. 97

The AUDACITY of this meme to expose our souls like this! 💀 One minute we're HOWLING with laughter at Stack Overflow horror stories and semicolon jokes, the next we're staring into the void with dead eyes while our code compiles for the 47th time. The duality of developer life is just TOO REAL - cackling at programming humor during our lunch break only to transform into emotionless debugging machines the moment we touch our keyboards. It's like our personality has two git branches that NEVER merge!