The Whitespace Paradox

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The Whitespace Paradox

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The eternal developer dilemma: lying awake at night pondering if whitespace (those invisible characters like spaces and tabs that format your code) actually transform into "blackspace" when you switch to dark mode. Meanwhile, non-technical partners are convinced we're mentally debugging our relationship subroutines. The truth? We're just obsessing over syntax that nobody else can see—which honestly might be worse.

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