• Exiting vim for the first time.
• Dependency hell. Often manifests itself through npm peer dependency conflicts that you have no control over, or Gradle dependencies seemingly not updating, when in reality they are being pulled from a cache you didn’t know about. Welcome to caching.
• Mispronouncing ”cache”.
• Saying “ess, queue, ell”.
• Thinking everyone else is a bad programmer, and that you’re the only good one. Surely your “yaml as code” idea is the most sound solution (ahem, GitHub Actions), and this “dependency injection” nonsense is just a bunch of boilerplate overhead.
• Thinking everyone else is a good programmer, and that you’re the only bad one. Welcome to imposter syndrome.
• If you went to school for CS/software, being taught multiple inheritance, polymorphism, and recursion are practical solutions to everyday coding problems.
• Realising the dev who just joined your team that you are training is being paid more than you out the gate.
• These commands:
  • git rebase —-abort
  • git commit —-no-verify
  • git reset —-hard
• Having to enter a password into a terminal and saying “wait it’s not letting me type”.
• Sudden urge to move to Austin, TX and climb fake boulders in an indoor gym.
• “What if we made a JavaScript framework to fix this?”
• Thinking “what if I built a startup and got rich?”, then binging Y-Combinator talks.
• ”I’m a literal genius.”
• “I’m an actual idiot.”
• Segmentation fault (core dumped)