Emotional Damage: When Your Code Gets Put Down

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Nothing sends you into a padded-room-worthy mental breakdown quite like following a tutorial that's missing critical steps. You're there, coffee in hand, thinking "I'll knock this out in 20 minutes" and two hours later you're googling "how to tell if I'm hallucinating buttons" while questioning your entire career choice. The worst part? When you finally figure it out, the solution is always some obscure step the author thought was "too obvious to mention." Yeah, super obvious to everyone except the person literally following your tutorial step-by-step, genius.

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Developers spend 8 hours staring at code but will fight to the death over whether their IDE should be light or dark themed. The true holy war isn't tabs vs. spaces—it's which shade of "eye-burning white" or "void-like black" best complements your syntax highlighting. Meanwhile, the blacked-out section marked "NOT OKAY" is probably some hideous pastel monstrosity that would make even Comic Sans blush. Because nothing says "senior developer" like having extremely strong opinions about color palettes while completely ignoring the 47 merge conflicts in your repo.

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