Debugging 101

Copy-pasting code from tutorials is the developer equivalent of following a recipe that claims to be "easy" but somehow your soufflé still collapses. The teddy bear's shocked expression perfectly captures that moment of betrayal when you realize the tutorial author conveniently omitted mentioning their 17 environment variables, custom libraries, and the blood sacrifice to the coding gods they performed beforehand. It's that special kind of disappointment that can only be cured by beer and Stack Overflow.

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Content Figure out your code Spend an hour solving a nonexistent error created by the way you're testing the code Write it neatly down Spend an hour solving a nonexistent error created by the way you're testing the code

Content WHEN YOU REACH YOUR PRINT STATEMENTS ONE AFTER THE OTHER LEADING TO FINDING THE ORIGIN OF THE BUG 7 Oh, yeah. It's all coming together.

Content 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Coding Best Practices: One of the key concepts of quaility code is orthogonality Me: Is it orthogonal enough? console. log (... ( (-- (-), (- (1??)? (-):)()L 1) . - DEBUG CONSOLE usrlocalbinnode .orthogonal.js 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97

Ah, the existential crisis of modern programming! That moment when GitHub Copilot is silently judging your spaghetti code while you spiral into imposter syndrome. Remember when we used to worry about Stack Overflow judging us? Now we've got AI watching our every keystroke, probably thinking "I could've done that in 2 milliseconds." Yet here we are, still employed despite our "junior skills" because someone needs to explain to management why the AI hallucinated an entire authentication system. Cherish these moments—soon we'll all just be prompt engineers for our robot overlords.