Debugging 101

Content Code with error handling The same code without error handling

Ah yes, the sacred ritual of choosing your RGB gaming PC based on magical programming buffs instead of specs. Personally, I'd grab that Pink one faster than a senior dev leaves the office before a production deployment. 50% less burnout? Sign me up! The Red one is just a glorified compiler that doubles as a space heater. Meanwhile, the Green PC's electricity bill is so low it makes solar panels look like a scam. And Dark Blue? Basically paying for Stack Overflow Premium and ChatGPT rolled into hardware. The real trap is the Yellow one. Reducing procrastination by 50%? That just means 50% less time watching YouTube tutorials that you'll never implement.

Classic infinite loop tragedy. The poor dev took "wash, rinse, repeat" at face value without implementing a break condition. This is why code reviews exist, folks. Your shower routine shouldn't need a stack overflow exception to terminate. Next time, try "wash, rinse, repeat until clean " – it's those edge cases that'll kill ya.

Content Game Developers then : I coded Rollercoaster Tycoon entirely in Assembly so it can run on most machines." "We made a shooter game "Try out our new game! that only takes up "Minimum requirements? First few levels are So long as your computer 97,280 bytes of space." free shareware!" can turn on." Triple A Game Developers now : Optimization? Sorry, we can't work on fixing the game. "Our game is 500GB. One of our employees keeps stealing Just get a better PC bro. You don't need to play You need at least breast milk from the female employees" any other games, right? Next-gen to play Also there is a 50GB without our game crashing." update patch." Yes, 1 know indie ime developers are an enception. There's ontr so much you can fit in a shitpost. "Our singleplayer game is always-online. Because fuck you, that's why."

That moment when you're optimizing memory usage and think "You know what? A char is 8 bits but I only need to store 5 characters... I could totally squeeze that into a 32-bit integer." Then you spend 6 hours bit-shifting and masking when you could've just used an array and gone home early. But hey, you saved 3 whole bytes! Practically a hero of computer science.

When you spend 6 hours debugging why your container won't start, only to realize you forgot a single hyphen in your docker-compose.yml file. Then you spend another 3 hours dealing with volume permissions. Then your image size balloons to 4GB because you accidentally included node_modules. Then Docker Desktop eats 8GB of RAM just sitting there. Then you get the dreaded "no space left on device" error and have to prune everything like you're Marie Kondo-ing your entire digital life. But hey, at least "it works on my machine" is no longer an excuse, right? RIGHT?! The relationship between developers and Docker is truly a love story for the ages – except it's all hate and we're all trapped in this containerized nightmare together. 🙃