Thinking Is Effortful

Content WHEN I TRY TO FIX A BUG It'll still probably be wrong, but it'll be differently wrong.

The brutal honesty of career choices summed up in one confession. Started coding because it seemed cool, stayed because I'm too deep in the tech debt to escape now. That moment when you realize your GitHub commits are basically digital breadcrumbs leading to your slow descent into Stack Overflow dependency. Seven years and four frameworks later, still googling basic syntax and pretending it's normal. The only difference between junior and senior devs? Seniors know which errors to ignore.

When your debugging skills hit rock bottom, so you recruit a chicken to peck at random lines of code. The ultimate rubber duck debugging technique - except this one actually makes decisions for you! That chicken is staring at those nested callbacks like "bro, even I wouldn't structure my coop this poorly." The developer's face says it all: "My code review is literally being done by poultry, and honestly, it's the most productive pair programming session I've had all week."

The eternal cycle of software development: create problem → panic → solve problem → be hero. That wasp isn't just a bug, it's the embodiment of the manufactured emergencies we deal with daily. "Everyone is mad at you" until you swoop in to fix the very crisis your team created last sprint. Nothing gets funding approved faster than a good old-fashioned production meltdown that could've been avoided with proper planning. But hey, why build things properly when you can just keep the adrenaline flowing? Crisis-driven development: because who needs sleep or mental health when you have tight deadlines and impossible client expectations?

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The Linux GPU driver experience is like walking through a minefield while juggling chainsaws. Beginners think it's just a simple "sudo apt install nvidia-driver" command, only to be greeted by the void of a black screen. But veterans? They're performing an elaborate interpretive dance routine - disabling SecureBoot, finding compatible kernel versions, dealing with Nouveau drivers that hate your existence, and praying to the open-source gods that X11 doesn't completely implode. The best part? After a decade of Linux experience, you're not better at installing drivers - you're just better at predicting which specific flavor of catastrophe awaits you this time.