If It Ain't Broke, Don't Refactor It

That rare moment of pride when you finally take the plunge and modify production code directly because "it's just a small fix." The formal announcement is necessary because you've spent years hearing "never touch prod" but here you are, living dangerously. Sure, you probably violated six company policies and bypassed three approval workflows, but hey—the customer's happy and nobody died! Let's just hope this doesn't become the first chapter in your upcoming book: "How I Learned to Update My Resume in a Hurry."

The stark contrast between how artists and programmers interact is painfully accurate. Artists dance around with false modesty while programmers just openly roast each other's code and nod in agreement. Nothing builds camaraderie in tech quite like mutual acknowledgment that your codebase is a dumpster fire. It's not self-deprecation if it's objectively true. The real programming interview question should be "how comfortable are you with someone calling your life's work 'the worst f***ing code they've ever seen' and you just replying 'yep, sounds about right'?"

The eternal programmer's pendulum. One minute you're crafting elegant code that would make the gods weep, convinced you're a programming deity who should be giving TED talks. The next minute you're frantically Googling "how to center a div" for the 500th time, certain you've fooled everyone into thinking you know what you're doing. That metronome swinging wildly between "I could rewrite the Linux kernel over lunch" and "I have no idea what I'm doing" is the quintessential developer experience. And somehow it happens multiple times before your morning coffee even kicks in.

Content Me: why does my back hurt Also Me Debugging an Issue:

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Content 9:37 Outlook 5G (30 Debugging software with a rubber ducky About Talk to a Duck Rubber Duck Debugging The rubber duck debugging method is as follows: 1. Beg, borrow, steal, buy, fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck (bathtub variety). 2. Place rubber duck on desk and inform it you are just going to go over some code with it, if that's all right. 3. Explain to the duck what your code is supposed to do, and then go into detail and explain your code line by line. 4. At some point you will tell the duck what you are doing next and then realise that that is not in fact what you are actually doing. The duck will sit there serenely, happy in the knowledge that it has helped you on your way. Note: In a pinch a coworker might be able to substitute for the duck, however, it is often preferred to confide mistakes to the duck instead of your coworker. rubberduckdebugging.com