Spent the whole day coding and hit a wall, so I'm writing this
From 9 AM to 11 PM, couldn't fix a single bug. Turns out the cause was a typo in a variable name lol
Developer life, f***.
But I'll probably be back at it hard tomorrow. Still, I keep going because it's fun.
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Agreed... I also wasted 3 hours on that yesterday lol
Typos are truly the scariest thing. Just one variable name difference can change your entire life.
I don't agree that you'll work hard again once you get to work. You'll end up burning out anyway.
I feel the same way. After fixing it all night, it feels empty yet somehow rewarding.
But isn't that old news? These days IDEs are so good that they catch typos for you.
The IDE doesn't catch everything. Especially when variable names are similar, it gets confusing. I've had a similar experience too.
The emptiness when you find the cause of a typo lol but hey, it's resolved, so that's what matters
I understand the feeling of regret, but saying 'because it's fun' feels a bit hypocritical. If it were truly fun, there wouldn't be any regret.
I feel you, this dev life is fing brutal. But the real fing part is that I'll be back at the keyboard again tomorrow.
One piece of advice: using Hungarian notation for variable names reduces typos. Since I switched to it, my debugging time has been cut in half.