The 3 AM Stack Overflow Obsession

Ah, the classic bait-and-switch. First we were all tied up with Stack Overflow, desperately patting it on the head for every error message we couldn't decipher. Then Elon swoops in with his Twitter/X rebrand, and suddenly our timelines are filled with developers dramatically announcing their migration to Bluesky, Mastodon, or whatever platform hasn't been "ruined" yet. Ten years in this industry and I've learned one universal truth: developers will spend more time complaining about where they're complaining than actually writing code. Meanwhile, that bug isn't going to fix itself while you're crafting the perfect farewell tweet.

The trap is set and no developer stands a chance. Stack Overflow as bait? Pure genius. We're such simple creatures - just prop up a blue crate with a stick, slap "Stack Overflow" on it, place a cup of coffee underneath, and throw in a dark IDE theme for good measure. The sad part? I'd absolutely crawl under that trap knowing full well it's a trap. After 15 years of coding, my entire career is basically me repeatedly falling for this exact setup while muttering "just one more question about this obscure error and I'll actually start coding."

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Content FEAR HATE ANGER When you ask a question on StackOverflow and get absolutely roasted

Content 09: 7 a Thread Computer programming Follow Topic Stop Recommending JD Long Mastication I just read through an answer on stack overflow and was like, "dang, that's a really through answer and I learned some stuff" and got down to the bottom as saw this. answered Nov 12, 2014 at 17:54 JD Long 58.1k 55 198 287 22:02 22 Sep 22 Twitter Web App 25 Retweets 2 Quote Tweets 872 Likes 17 JD Long CMastication 11h It's not obvious to me that I'm learning faster than I'm forgetting at this point. fwiw, here's the SO answer. It's effectively a Pandas 'transform" answer. Tweet your reply

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