What Not To Do

Microsoft's evolution of failure screens is truly inspiring. The iconic Blue Screen of Death with its sad emoticon has been upgraded to a sleek, minimalist Black Screen of Death. Progress! Now when your system crashes, you can experience existential dread in dark mode. Notice how they've gone from "20% complete" to "0% complete" – perfectly capturing Microsoft's commitment to honesty in user experience. Nothing says "we've given up" quite like removing even the pretense of progress.

The eternal developer cycle: abandoning a graveyard of unfinished projects to chase the dopamine hit of starting something new. That shiny new project idea looks so promising while you're neck-deep in technical debt and spaghetti code from your previous attempts. "This time I'll use proper documentation! This time I'll write tests first! This time I won't hardcode everything!" Spoiler alert: you won't. But hey, at least the first three days of every new project feel like pure genius before reality sets in.

The circle of debugging life: introduce a bug, then heroically "fix" it by creating three more. That red error bar isn't a warning—it's a trophy for your commitment to job security. Nothing says "senior developer" like breaking your own code and then spending four hours fixing what worked perfectly yesterday.

Nothing triggers programmer paranoia quite like unsaved code. That single keystroke combination stands between you and digital oblivion. Write three lines of code? Better smash Ctrl+S seventeen times just to be sure. The IDE says it's saved? Don't believe its lies. That little asterisk next to your file name is giving you anxiety. Your fingers have probably worn down the S key more than any other on your keyboard. Trust issues with technology are real - especially when you've been burned by that one time your machine crashed and took your unsaved masterpiece with it. Now you're Tom, frantically beating Jerry (your save button) into submission after every semicolon.

The pinnacle of error handling right here! This dev just casually commented out the error handling with // I missed the part where that's my problem in a webhook function. Sure, let the API call fail silently in production - what could possibly go wrong? Just yeet that error into the void and let future-you (or some poor on-call engineer at 2AM) deal with the consequences when customers start complaining. Classic "works on my machine" energy. The Spider-Man reference makes it even more perfect - with great code comes absolutely zero responsibility, apparently!

Content Expectation when you start learning how to program Reality can be whatever I want. When you actually try to do it I have been debugging... FOR 30 HOURS!!!