I Got This... Just Let Me Restart It

Content Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter's Javascript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second. Twitter is DDOSing itself. 17:44 - 1723 des de Earth 54,3k visualitzacions 233 retuits 38 cites 821 agradaments 26 preferits 17

You're in the zone, fingers flying across the keyboard at superhuman speed, crafting what you're absolutely certain is going to be the most elegant solution ever written. Then your IDE starts having an absolute meltdown, throwing red squiggly lines everywhere like confetti at a syntax error party. Every incomplete variable declaration, every missing semicolon, every unclosed bracket is screaming at you simultaneously. But here's the thing: you KNOW where you're going with this. You've got the entire architecture mapped out in your head. That variable you're using? You're literally about to declare it three lines down. That function call? The implementation is coming right after you finish this thought. Your IDE just needs to chill and trust the process. It's like trying to write a sentence while someone keeps interrupting you after every word to tell you it's grammatically incorrect. Yes, I KNOW it doesn't compile yet, I'm not done! The real power move is completely ignoring that error count climbing into double digits while you maintain your flow state.

That mug speaks nothing but hard truth. Debugging is the perfect crime drama where you frantically search for the villain who broke your code, only to discover it was you all along. The plot twist nobody wanted but everyone deserved. You start with such confidence, wielding print statements like a detective's flashlight, setting breakpoints like police tape, only to eventually face the horrifying realization that the bug was caused by your own careless typing or logical fallacies from three hours ago. And the worst part? The relief you feel when you find the culprit is immediately followed by the shame of knowing it was your own handiwork all along. Crime solved... dignity lost.

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When you've been coding for so long that you start indexing real-world objects from zero. Normal people would call this the first step, but programmers know better—it's obviously step[0]. The contractor probably spent years debugging array out-of-bounds exceptions and now can't help but apply zero-indexing to everything they build. Just wait until they number the floors in their next apartment building: Ground, 1, 2... just to watch the mathematicians and Europeans lose their minds.

The expectation vs reality of code comprehension is just brutal. You start with "I'll just read someone else's code" with all the confidence in the world, then five minutes later you're staring at the monitor with that exact snake face – a mixture of suspicion, confusion, and existential dread. But the real punchline? That "someone else" is often just you from three months ago. Nothing humbles a developer quite like opening up your own masterpiece from last quarter and wondering what kind of fever dream you were having when you wrote that nested ternary inside a map function with zero comments.