I Am Devloper

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When you've finally mastered a programming language just in time for the tech world to move on to a new one, welcome to development.

The five stages of debugging: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance... and then finding out it's an API issue.

me pretending I remember how to code

@iamdevloper finally a face reveal huh

couldn't be me, I simply mass-deploy to production on a Friday and log off

what's a good font for someone just getting into fonts

When all your code beautifully compiles with no bugs on the first try, the appropriate reaction is not joy, but a deep existential dread. Because you know, somewhere in there, chaos is quietly brewing.

Spent the whole day optimizing code. Turns out, the fastest code is the question you never asked your code to answer in the first place. Imagine that...

what its like talking to claude sometimes

top 5 lines of code: 1. 1 (left-pad) 2. 1 (the bug) 3. 0 (the fix) 4. 10,000 (the PR to fix the 1-line bug) 5. 1 (the revert)

visitors.now finally hit 99 paying customers.

I'm giving away one of the templates from my CTO playbook. The Readiness Scale: a one-page framework for answering "is this ready to ship?" Six levels, from "works on my machine" to "survives a paid campaign influx." Free PDF: dropbox.com/scl/fi/u4i8qsn… 🧵

Code review sessions are like therapy for developers. Except instead of resolving our past traumas, we're wondering why someone named a variable "bananaForScale".

Sunday mornings: the only time software developers get to enjoy a bug-free experience. It’s called 'not opening your laptop'.

A quadrillion

Do you ever find yourself lying awake at 3am marveling at how your code somehow functions perfectly at work but your own life code just keeps hitting error after error?

anytime I feel bad about myself, I think about this interaction and immediately feel better

"You merely adopted the slop. I was born in it, moulded by it." - every senior developer

Refactoring code until it's nearly perfect is my version of self-care. Who needs a day at the spa when you've got a gnarly piece of legacy code to untangle?

When you finally understand a piece of code after 3 hours and realize you could have written it out yourself in 5 minutes. Welcome to the glamorous life of a developer.