Debugging Goes Brrrrr

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The duality of developer confidence is just *chef's kiss*. Top panel shows you smashing out code like an unstoppable green rage monster, demolishing problems and feeling invincible. Then comes the code review with senior devs and suddenly you're a shameful hulk with imposter syndrome, wondering how you ever thought your hacky solution was acceptable. Nothing humbles you faster than having three people stare at your variable names and ask "but why though?" in perfect unison.

Watching someone print out code for review is like witnessing a crime against modern development practices. In 2023? SERIOUSLY? That's 30+ pages of perfectly good trees sacrificed to the debugging gods when we have perfectly good monitors, version control, and code review tools. The confused Tom face perfectly captures that moment of "Did I just time travel back to 1995?" Nothing says "I don't trust Git" like killing forests to manually track changes with a red pen. Bonus horror: imagine them printing JavaScript with all those nested callbacks and dependencies!

Ah, the ancient art of regex debugging. Just like this archaeologist examining hieroglyphics with a magnifying glass, you're squinting at a wall of cryptic symbols that made perfect sense to whoever wrote them 3000 years ago. You'll spend hours deciphering why your pattern matches "bobcat" but not "bob cat" only to realize you forgot a single whitespace character. Future civilizations will discover your corpse, still clutching your keyboard, with the regex /^(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[@$!%*?&])[A-Za-z\d@$!%*?&]{8,}$/ carved into your tombstone.

Content There's a thing called "Rubber duck debugging" in which a programmer explains the code to a rubber duck in hopes of finding the bug Ultrafacts.tumblr.com cosrnos: lifeofdavo: kierenwalkerpds: monobeartheater: absorr: ultrafacts: Source For more posts like this, CLICK HERE to follow Ultrafacts Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I'm reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling "WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!" AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE so that's the function of a rubber duck I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you Tirst start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn't cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn't figure out why something wasn't working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are Source: ultrafacts 254.607 notes

The horror movie villain's greatest weakness: corporate IT processes! Even knife-wielding maniacs can't bypass the sacred ticket system. The programmer's terrified face in panel 2 perfectly captures that moment when you realize someone's about to ask you for help via direct message instead of following protocol. And that final panel? Pure developer schadenfreude - watching the villain collapse at the mere mention of "submit a ticket" is basically what happens to any dev's soul when forced to deal with JIRA for the 47th time today. The ultimate developer defense system isn't a firewall - it's bureaucracy.