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The eternal developer nightmare: Support team flexing like bodybuilders when reporting bugs, but turning into melted puddles when asked for reproduction steps. "It happens sometimes on Tuesdays when Mercury is in retrograde and the user clicks really fast while standing on one foot." And then they wonder why we close tickets as "Cannot Reproduce." Classic case of Schrödinger's Bug – it both exists and doesn't exist until someone documents it properly.

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The RGB gaming peripheral struggle is real. After kicking out all the flashy rainbow keyboards, chairs, and monitors, Mr. Krabs keeps just the plain black mouse. Because when your setup looks like a unicorn threw up on it, sometimes all you want is that one piece of hardware that doesn't blind you at 2AM while you're debugging production code. The mouse – the only adult in the room of gaming peripherals.

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Content Trying to teach my 10yo to code despite only knowing the basics myself. Set them a challenge, left them to it, they found the answer on stackoverflow and just copied and pasted. Is my job complete? homeschooling programming stackoverflow

In your head, it's all rainbows and elegant algorithms. You're basically the next Linus Torvalds, crafting revolutionary code that will change humanity forever. Then reality hits—semicolons missing, undefined variables everywhere, and that one bracket you can't find for 45 minutes. The dream of clean, beautiful code crumbles into a nightmare of Stack Overflow searches and desperate console.log statements. Programming: where expectations and reality have never met and never will.