Programming In A Nutshell

Content Types of Headaches Migraine Hypertension working of hours trying to fix a bug Stress just to find out you misspelled something

Content Richard Campbell richcampbell 24 Jul How's that API?

That moment when you go from asking questions to answering them because the only person who understood the codebase just rage-quit. Now you're sitting there with your chocolate milk, contemplating how you'll explain to management why every feature will take 6 months longer than expected. The thousand-yard stare says it all: "I've seen one too many nested callbacks, and now I'm the one who has to untangle this nightmare."

Junior devs live in a fantasy world where they either think they're writing perfect code or have emotional meltdowns when criticized. Meanwhile, senior devs have reached coding nirvana – the beautiful state where you can both tell someone their code is absolute garbage and accept when yours is too. Nothing says "I've been in this industry for a decade" quite like the calm acceptance that everything we build is just varying degrees of terrible.

The eternal saga of code reviews in one Slack message. Dude casually drops "i think cursor fixed it, can i merge?" and gets absolutely 875 replies of people tearing his code apart. That's not a code review—that's a digital intervention! Guarantee those replies are filled with "Actually..." and "Well, technically..." comments dissecting his cursor fix like it's a murder scene. Pro tip: never ask if you can merge unless you're prepared for your colleagues to discover every sin you've committed since learning to code.

Content You know.. that bug you tried to fix the whole day? Yes. Thank you for the reminder, I try to sleep here. You should switch the order of the loops, then it should work muglip.com