Programmer's Credo

When a 2-day task turns into a 2-week task 🙃

14 hours into writing the script that was going to save you from doing the task yourself and you can't quit now, too much time has been put into this endeavour.

"it's a piece of cake" - famous last words

This makes me wanna LOL and cry at the same time.

Is that metal? Did someone actually turn a tweet into a metal plaque? I'm not complaining, I think it's funny.

And then we find ourselves falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

I do love pinboard, btw.

I'm really feeling all those hours I spend learning vim to never use vim.

Looks like a repost. I'm up voting it.

you know what? I'm done. "while(..."

If things were always as easy I thought they'd be my life would be a lot easier :/

Oh man, this hit me right in the face 🫣.

So many times did I get myself into weeks, month and even years long projects thinking I'll be done in an afternoon... feature creep and my need to fidget with my code because its not perfect yet...