The Five Hour Love Affair With Code

The honeymoon phase of coding lasts exactly 4 hours and 59 minutes. That magical moment when your enthusiasm for "building the future" transforms into wanting to send your compiler to meet its maker. Nothing quite captures the duality of a programmer's existence like starting the day with "I'm going to change the world!" and ending it with "WHERE IS THE MISSING SEMICOLON?!" The relationship between developers and their machines is just domestic bliss with occasional thoughts of technological homicide.