Existential Debugging Crisis

Survivorship bias: the tech industry's secret promotion strategy! Why master complex algorithms when you can master the art of not updating your LinkedIn? Just hunker down while your colleagues chase shiny new startups, and voilà – you're suddenly the oracle of legacy code and where all the bodies are buried in the codebase. The real senior developer skill isn't solving problems, it's remembering why that mysterious function from 2016 can't be deleted without bringing down the entire system. Institutional knowledge through sheer stubbornness – nature's way of turning mediocrity into seniority!

Content ?php header ("Content-type: texthtml; charsetutf-8"); This is a warning to any poor soul who may have to deal with this code. I took over this criminal piece of chaos from a monkey named Joel who I assume had been given a typewriter by Mephistopheles himself. For reasons I have yet been unable to fathom, he decided to patch together this thing using a BaseX setup hardwired into an unfixably broken Manjaro VM, queried by a handwritten plate of uncommented PHP spaghetti fit to feed an army of people with a serious death wish, without any framework or CMS. The very long BaseX script, very long PHP presenter and very long XSLT stylesheet mostly perform the same heuristic document structuring for different components and are supposed to produce compatible results, but I bet they have mismatches somewhere. Since Prof. T just wanted a few small functional enhancements, I decided to just patch it and keep the general setup. Unless you were hired to correct some spelling mistakes, DO NOT FOLLOW IN MY STEPS. Putting up with this simulation of how a goldfish would design a system has literally given me CLINICAL DEPRESSION. This is not an exaggeration, I am writing this after a prolonged medical therapy - mostly successful, thanks for asking, but not fun. I wouldn't wish this code on anybody who isn't a manager at Oracle or Facebook, and therefore give you this sincere advice: Nuke this. Take the XSLT if you must, and then nuke the app and recreate it in Django or whatever works for you. I would do it myself, but I risked a relapse simply by opening this file again to write this comment. Dear brother or sister, I wish you all the luck and strength in the world and hope it will be enough. Farewell. error reporting(E ALL); ini set ("display errors", true); print('?yml version"1.0" encoding"UTF.8" 2' "p"):?

Ah yes, the pinnacle of modern debugging: when your code fails, just ask ChatGPT to fix it. Who needs Stack Overflow anymore when you can just wrap your entire codebase in a try-catch and let AI handle the rest? Next step: AI that writes the bugs for you so the other AI can fix them. The circle of life in silicon.

Content using a decent fully featured debugger print("if the program reached that print statement it means that this pile of crap that i wrote works!.")

OH MY STARS AND GARTERS! The absolute AUDACITY of pushing untested code to dev at 4:59 PM on a Friday! 💅✨ It's the classic "not my problem until Monday" energy that only the most chaotic developers possess. Like, honey, you're literally creating a weekend emergency while dancing on the grave of your team's sanity! That code is going to break SPECTACULARLY while you're sipping margaritas, and some poor on-call dev will be crying into their keyboard. ICONIC BEHAVIOR. 👑

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