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Please Spare Me From Having To Touch That Shit I Wrote Back Then

Please Spare Me From Having To Touch That Shit I Wrote Back Then
The horror! The absolute existential dread of discovering your old code lurking in a production codebase. It's like opening a time capsule filled with questionable life choices and embarrassing fashion statements, except this one can crash servers. Every developer has that moment of "who wrote this garbage?" followed by the soul-crushing realization that you are the author of said garbage. The code you wrote six months ago might as well have been written by your evil twin who hates documentation and future-you specifically. The box isn't just holding code—it's containing your shame, your technical debt, and that "temporary" solution that somehow survived three major releases. Touch it? You'd rather stick your hand in a blender. At least the blender would be honest about its intentions.

Too Real To Be Comfortable

Too Real To Be Comfortable
This is what happens when you open that project from your GitHub graveyard. That tangled mess of wires perfectly captures the horror of revisiting your old code—a chaotic nightmare that somehow worked but you have absolutely no idea how. The poor soul climbing into that disaster is all of us trying to add "just one small feature" to code we wrote before we knew better. It's like archaeological excavation, except instead of treasure you find comments like "//fix this later" and functions named "temp_solution_final_v3_ACTUALLY_FINAL".