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Content Fixing errors in your C program all night and it's still full of errors but you have to turn something in. made this one with my tears.

That door frame is the perfect metaphor for what happens when you inherit a 10-year-old codebase. Someone clearly said "the door doesn't fit the frame" and instead of rebuilding it properly, they just hacked together a bizarre extension. It's that special kind of solution where fixing it properly would require tearing down load-bearing spaghetti code, so instead you get this monstrosity that technically works but makes future developers question their career choices. The worst part? Someone got praised for this "creative solution" during a sprint review. And now it's documented as "intentional architecture."

The elegant architecture you craft in your head vs the janky spaghetti code that actually makes it to production. Every developer swears they're Jack Sparrow when designing their solution, but when the deadline pressure hits, we all turn into the bootleg knockoff version. After 15 years in this industry, I've accepted that my mental models are just elaborate lies I tell myself before the reality of git commits sets in. The expectation vs reality gap in programming is wider than the ocean Captain Jack sails on.

Content G152 Open source contributions Experienced developers fixing bugs and adding new features. Me fixing typos in the documentation

Content 1 Am Devloper iamdevloper Every developer: we need to implement an email alert system to notify us if production crashes Every developer after the first crash: how do we turn off these email alerts? 1:18 28 Jan 20 Buffer