Enlightenment: everything works, and we don’t know why. So DON’T TOUCH IT.
Teaching is learning a second time.
Rewriting is learning a third time.
Rewriting is learning a fourth time.
When I was younger and had more time on my hands I would end up rewriting most of my big projects at least 2 or 3 times
This was super funny in the '90s, but I’m not sure whether it was just that era or that we’ve all seen this one about a million times since.
Licensing: the same code i compiled yesterday doesn’t compile today.
First good chuckle of the day. Thanks! I’ll pause here to go get breakfast.
Aside: when I was first learning to code, I’d take a bicycle ride when I got stuck. The answers came to me as I rode in circles talking aloud about whatever problem I was trying to solve.
Be careful not to sign up for Tour de France eventually…
I was recently made aware of the concept of “rubber ducking”. Maybe thats something you were doing without realising
