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Spending 30 minutes writing a script to automate a 5-minute task is the hill I'll proudly die on. Sure, I could just do the damn thing, but where's the elegance in that? The cosmic irony of programming: we'd rather spend 6x longer building the automation than actually doing the work. It's not laziness—it's "future-proofing." And yes, I know I'll never run that script again. But what if I did ? Checkmate.

Content Server has crashed Where is backup? On the server

When normal people talk about "free time activities," they're thinking about hiking or Netflix. Developers? We just switch programming languages. Nothing says "relaxation" quite like abandoning your half-finished Node.js project to start a new one in Rust. It's like taking a vacation, except you're still staring at a screen and questioning your life choices at 3 AM.

Content WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GOOGLE AN ERROR. FIND NO RESULTS, AND THEN WHEN YOU SOLVE IT REALIZE THE BUG WAS SO STUPID NOBODY EVER EVEN POSTED IT ONLINE I THINK I AM A DECENT DEV IMPOSTER SYNDROME

The eternal workplace dichotomy exposed! Designers clutch their Pantone swatches in existential dread when a new creative joins the team. "My pixel-perfect mockups... my carefully curated color schemes... was it all for nothing? " Meanwhile, engineers are over in the corner doing the digital equivalent of chest-bumping. New teammate? More brainpower to tackle that legacy codebase nobody wants to touch! Someone else to review those 3,000-line pull requests! Another soul to share the 2AM production hotfix burden! The tribal knowledge grows stronger. The documentation remains unwritten. The technical debt multiplies. But hey—apes together strong. 🦍💻

The bell curve of debugging intelligence. At the bottom left and right, the simple souls with their "just reset it bro" approach—blissfully unaware but sometimes right. Meanwhile, the 34% crowd in the middle is sweating through Root Cause Analysis like it's their religion. They're writing 12-page documents about why the server hiccupped at 2:17 PM last Tuesday. Truth is, both the village idiot and the enlightened sage arrive at the same conclusion: turning it off and on again fixes 90% of problems. The difference? One spent 8 hours documenting the electron flow through the CPU first.