• @[email protected]
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    23 days ago

    Having maintained a large legacy codebase and being one of the only people who knew how it worked, it was kinda fun.

    That reward you get tracking down an obscure and deep codepath that crosses program runtime and language barriers to discover and correct a bug is so satisfying.

    Later you’ll explain the bug in your PR and nobody will have any idea what’s happening, but they approve the PR nonetheless.

    • @aeronmelon
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      23 days ago

      Then one day you’re tracking down a fault and all the computers come alive.

      “Attention Bajoran workers…”