The Self-Sustaining Developer Ecosystem

The universal IT solution meets international trade policy. The bottom panel features Roy from "The IT Crowd" delivering his iconic tech support line, but this time to economic complaints instead of computer problems. The implication that complex economic policies could be fixed with the same brute-force restart method we use for routers is just... *chef's kiss*. Next up: trying to fix the national debt by blowing on it like an NES cartridge.

Content LEFT cUT 12 Tearing to code To ChatGPT: "For the following code I get this error: E 0:00:20:0600 scene manager gd:157 ..." Made with Piata Farms

The infamous "just one more bug" lie that's haunted relationships since the first compiler error. Young dev you promises dinner at 7, but old dev you is still debugging the same issue at midnight... 84 years later. The only thing that ages faster than Rose from Titanic is your codebase when you say "this will be quick." That "one more bug" is like the final boss in a video game that keeps spawning minions. Fix one issue, three more appear – it's basically hydra-driven development.

Content When you finally fix the bug and you end up with nothing to do for the rest of the day so alone DEVPUNS

Content ?php header ("Content-type: texthtml; charsetutf-8"); This is a warning to any poor soul who may have to deal with this code. I took over this criminal piece of chaos from a monkey named Joel who I assume had been given a typewriter by Mephistopheles himself. For reasons I have yet been unable to fathom, he decided to patch together this thing using a BaseX setup hardwired into an unfixably broken Manjaro VM, queried by a handwritten plate of uncommented PHP spaghetti fit to feed an army of people with a serious death wish, without any framework or CMS. The very long BaseX script, very long PHP presenter and very long XSLT stylesheet mostly perform the same heuristic document structuring for different components and are supposed to produce compatible results, but I bet they have mismatches somewhere. Since Prof. T just wanted a few small functional enhancements, I decided to just patch it and keep the general setup. Unless you were hired to correct some spelling mistakes, DO NOT FOLLOW IN MY STEPS. Putting up with this simulation of how a goldfish would design a system has literally given me CLINICAL DEPRESSION. This is not an exaggeration, I am writing this after a prolonged medical therapy - mostly successful, thanks for asking, but not fun. I wouldn't wish this code on anybody who isn't a manager at Oracle or Facebook, and therefore give you this sincere advice: Nuke this. Take the XSLT if you must, and then nuke the app and recreate it in Django or whatever works for you. I would do it myself, but I risked a relapse simply by opening this file again to write this comment. Dear brother or sister, I wish you all the luck and strength in the world and hope it will be enough. Farewell. error reporting (E ALL); ini set("display errors" true); print('?yml version"1.0" encodina" TF.8" ?' "n"):?

Content Me debuggin' when i learn a new language: PRINTM GO!!!!