Looks Like Another Bug Hunt

Content When you stare at your code for 2 hours and you finally get a different error

Content The 5 Stages of Debugging At some point in each of our lives, we must face errors in our code. Debugging is a natural healing process to help us through these times. It is important to recognize these common stages and realize that debugging will eventually come to an end. Denial This stage is often characterized by such phrases as "What? That's impossible," or "I know this is right." A strong sign of denial is recompiling without changing any code, "just in case.' BargainingSelf-Blame Several programming errors are uncovered and the programmer feels stupid and guilty for having made them. Bargaining is common: "If I fix this, will you please compile?" Also, "I only have 14 errors to go!" HOSt Anger Cryptic error messages send the programmer into a rage. This stage is accompanied by an hours-long and profanity-filled diatribe about the limitations of the language directed at whomever will listen. Depression Following the outburst, the programmer becomes aware that hours have gone by unproductively and there is still no solution in sight. The programmer becomes listless. Posture often deteriorates. Accentance The programmer finally accepts the situation, declares the bug a "feature", and goes to play some Quake.

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Content Using a JS debugger window.alert ('breakpoint')

Ah, the eternal struggle of asking "Do you want pizza tonight?" and getting "I had pizza last Thursday but my cousin's birthday is coming up and I'm thinking about getting a haircut tomorrow." Boolean questions expect true/false answers, but non-technical people treat them like an invitation to write their autobiography. Meanwhile, developers sit there mentally trying to parse a 50-word response into a single bit of information. The worst part? You can't even throw an InvalidCastException at them and walk away.

The modern developer dichotomy in its full glory! Up top we've got the polished, well-groomed developers who just copy-paste from Stack Overflow, Google search results, and ask ChatGPT to fix their bugs. Meanwhile, the documentation readers below look like they've been coding for 72 hours straight, sustained purely by Monster Energy and sheer determination. Reading docs is apparently the programming equivalent of staring into the void until the void stares back. The best part? Those documentation demons probably write better code than the rest of us combined. Choose your fighter: pretty but dependent, or unhinged but powerful.