Fixing Errors Is Scary

Content Katerina Borodina kathyra 15h 'I'm a programmer" - boring - nerdy - people will ask you for tech help " am one with the machines, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics" - powerful - people will think you're weird and will leave you alone. success! now you can get back to debugging 45 17 916 3,586

Content chmod 777 wicksudo If you see a person staring at screen, cursing and talking to themselves, most of the time they are not on drugs or crazy and is just a developer debugging code Monday morning which they wrote Friday evening 12:34 PM 30 Jan 21 Twitter for Android

Looking at your two-week-old code like it's ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics is the universal developer experience. The mental gymnastics of trying to decode what past-you was thinking is harder than solving the actual bug. Your brain frantically searches for memories: "Did I write this during that energy drink bender?" No documentation, no comments—just mysterious symbols that might as well be instructions for building a pyramid. Future tip: Comment your code or prepare for archaeological expeditions into your own creation.

The ultimate programmer paradox: !false evaluates to true , but the statement "it's funny because it's true" is itself a boolean expression that's both logically sound and a meta-joke. Seven years into debugging other people's code and I still chuckle at these elementary boolean puns while questioning my life choices. The real joke is that we spend hours hunting down logic errors caused by a single misplaced exclamation mark.

The evolution of a developer in its natural habitat. Junior devs naively believe documentation exists somewhere in a mythical folder. Meanwhile, senior devs have transcended the need for written instructions because they've internalized every painful bug, every midnight hotfix, and every legacy codebase nightmare. After years of trauma, they've become one with the code. They don't read documentation—they remember the mistakes that led to its creation. The knowledge isn't written down because it's etched into their souls alongside their will to live.

Content lIl fix it in the morning Hey, there might be a really easy fix for that issue you've been working on