When I've Been Debugging The Same Problem For A Week

Content inigo quilez iquilezles - 3h Planck constant of software development, the smallest measurable amount of coding effort, is 15 minutes. 17 21 50 Tom Forsyth tom forsyth Follow iquilezles Heisenberg principle: you can make something in a known amount of time, or you can make it bug-free, but you can't do both. RETWEETS 8 LIKES 25

Content Vishal VishalMalvi Want someone to hold my hand and say, "let's fix this bug together"

Content Catalin Pit catalinmpit Let me break it for you. Coding is: - 1 actually coding -40 debugging - 15 coffee breaks - 30 googling errors - 9 staring with your colleagues at the screen - 5 trying copypasted solutions from Stack Overflow

Why learn just enough Python to fix your broken script when you can have a COMPLETE MENTAL BREAKDOWN learning an entirely new programming language in a week?! 😩 The sheer AUDACITY of developers who would rather rewrite their entire codebase than spend 15 minutes on Stack Overflow! It's not procrastination, it's called "expanding your skill set" and it's TOTALLY reasonable to learn Rust from scratch instead of debugging that one pesky line of code. Pure chaotic genius or absolute madness? You decide! (But we all know it's madness.)

The most accurate regex tutorial ever created. Step 1: Open your editor. Step 2: Let your cat walk across the keyboard. Congratulations, you've just created a pattern that's equally as comprehensible as one you would have written yourself after 3 hours of trying. The best part? Both will somehow match email addresses from 1997 but fail on anything sent after 2015. Your cat might actually be better at this than you are.

This meme perfectly captures the existential crisis of every high-level programmer who dares peek under the hood. Top panel shows a clean, elegant C/C++ function to check if a number is odd with a simple bitwise operation. Bottom panel reveals the assembly code equivalent that looks like it's summoning a demon. The reaction face says it all - "You thought you were writing clean code? That's cute. Meanwhile, the compiler is in the back doing dark magic rituals with registers and bit operations." This is why most of us stay comfortably nestled in our high-level languages, blissfully ignorant of the eldritch horrors happening at the assembly level.