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one of these days, the land will win. the land always wins. but today is not that day.

Daydreaming about #1 everyday

no activity has ever had me oscillate between "I'm fucking stupid" and "I'm fucking brilliant" quite so quickly

I discovered the secret third state (massive, stroke-induced seizure at desk while working on task and forget how task works)

The ""Hard drinking" method, popularized by MIT" step

(screaming) WHICH FUCKING IDIOT WROTE THIS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT? *furiously checks git* (tiny voice) oh, it was me

Pretty close to reality 🤭

The best is when you spend an hour trying to debug and you just forgot a negative sign in line 347 which had a cascading effect making everything non functional

Relaying this plan of yours to others: "He's got this dream about buying some land He's gonna give up the booze and the one-night stands And then he'll settle down In some quiet little town And forget about everything".

I should've bought some bitcoin and houses when I was a toddler😭

Um no. 2. That was embarrassingly obvious - I am a fucking incompetent. It took me how long? And all that effort for so few lines of code.

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This is a great ´Sky

I was gonna post this if no one beat me to it. I had this and the Jenga one on the wall of my cube, when I had a cube.

3. F*king OneDrive... <reboots again>

There is a third matter state: Concussed Kitten Mode editting re-editting

And that little cycle is why engineers are technically addicted to coding and why I sometimes get emails at 2am saying FIXED IT. Adapting the aphorism: find a job you're addicted to and you'll work every day of your life.

I don't like the doubt you've added to your name. It makes me feel uneasy 😄 (nervous laughter)

painfully accurate

For me: 1. Those rock trucks on Gold Rush don't look too hard to drive and my brain could just be off (trying to fix hideous bug I have introduced) 2) I am a fucking genius that will never die... (all tests run, code review is sparse and it merges)

I work with developers and can confirm 💜

Just this... but flipped.

3. HELL YEEEEE- o waitaminute… HOLUP (the disbelief when you’ve just finished a huge code refactor of hundreds of lines across several files that took you hours, and when you save the last file, everything compiles and all the errors in the unit tests magically clear up in the console)

The resonance is *real*

I know enough programmers to know that this is true.

The techie -> goat-farmer pipeline is definitely A Thing.

> git blame 🪞

"That tester is so stupid...no-one is ever going to do that in real life."

looks like you are mid-sprint

advanced programmer technique

missing the third state: 3. fuck everything is on fire what did I do what did I do (1 hr after submitting task)

(sees a tow truck go by) now that's the life

I'm not in programming (I wish!) but I go through the same stages as well. However, I do believe that the fantasizing part helps getting through. But yeah you are fucking genius!

Writing is the exact same vibe

Buy some land and deal with no unit of time shorter than a season. (h/t to whomever it was on the Eagle CPU team Tracy Kidder was writing about back then.)

3. what if I had a drink instead (trying to work up the motivation to start task)

Or D. Why not both?

Buying a boat and sailing away fills in #1 as well.

I consider abandoning my career for a life of sheep farming about once a week (I know nothing about sheep farming)

my 2 states are "how the fu-" and "NO WAY THAT WORKED- and for fuck sake why did that thing break"

The reasons for courage, perseverance, wisdom, goals, and Ardent focus. 😆😛

3rd state: is there any of that pizza left in the break room?

I just said this today.. I’m a move into the woods but with WiFi and water type of dreamer. Then engineering says my 2 team tickets are coming out of backlog to next sprint-ok I’ll stay