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Your Computer's Selective Hearing

Programming Debugging Testing

11 days ago 57.3K views 0 shares

Your Computer's Selective Hearing

The eternal programmer struggle summed up in 11 words. We spend our days shouting instructions at silicon, hoping it might cooperate. "I tell computers to do things. Sometimes they listen." That's not just programming—that's an abusive relationship with technology where you're the one being gaslit. The computer knows exactly what you want but chooses violence instead. And the best part? When it finally works, you have no idea why. Just nod and back away slowly before it changes its mind.

What Debugging Is Really Like

Debugging Programming Testing Frontend Backend

27 days ago 63.3K views 0 shares

What Debugging Is Really Like

Ah, the classic onion analogy. After 20 years of staring at code, I can confirm this is painfully accurate. You start with "it's just a simple bug" and six hours later you're questioning your career choices while discovering the issue was actually caused by a dependency of a dependency of a library you imported three years ago. And yes, I've definitely had that moment of silent despair during a Zoom call when layer #17 of the debugging onion made me die inside. The only difference between debugging and onions? At least with onions, you eventually reach the center.