Debugging Your Brain Instead Of The Code

The stark contrast between designers and programmers couldn't be more accurate. Designers fight tooth and nail over who had an idea first, while programmers openly admit to code theft only to hear "It's not my code" in response. Because in the programming world, nobody wants to claim ownership of that horrifying spaghetti mess that somehow works. Stack Overflow copy-paste solidarity at its finest.

OH. MY. GOD. Microsoft has reached peak simplification nirvana! 🙄 Why use descriptive, specific terms when you can just call LITERALLY EVERYTHING an "app"?! Remote Desktop? Too specific! Operating system? Too technical! Daemon? Too scary-sounding! Just slap "app" on it and call it a day! The absolute TRAGEDY of trying to Google "Windows App not connecting" and getting 8 million results about the Weather app! It's like Microsoft is DELIBERATELY trying to make troubleshooting an Olympic sport! Next up: they'll rename their entire company to "Thing" and their logo to a generic square. PERFECTION! 💅

Brain during study: Focused scholar surrounded by equipment, ready to absorb complex algorithms and design patterns. Brain during coding interview: "Jorg Washingmachine." Your memory buffer apparently undergoes a complete garbage collection the moment you need to recall anything useful. Happens to the best of us. Just smile and nod while your brain frantically tries to remember if arrays are zero-indexed.

Non-programmers imagine us locked in epic battles over algorithm efficiency like Godzilla vs Kong, debating the merits of our custom sorting implementations. Meanwhile, our actual bloodsport? Two people in ridiculous costumes having a street fight over whether a variable should be named dateUpdated or updatedDate . The truth hurts. I've seen teams spend 45 minutes in code review debating variable names while the actual bug goes unnoticed. Such is the glamorous life in tech.

Content Became a software engineer because its a beautiful crossroad where theoretical knowledge meets real-world application Became a software engineer because I'm addicted to the micro-serotonin rush I get when my IDE highlights things that were written correctly and when a compile goes through without errors

Content me optimizing my code without actually fixing it: I can't do it can't In it