When the problem was bigger than you anticipated and you’re a not-so-good developer

bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 154 points –

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Bro, just one more bug fix, I swear. The base design is good, promise. This is just a simple bug that I need to fix. It doesn’t require redesigning my approach. I know I’m calling the same function 8 times to get the same data each time, but that’s just this one time, bro. I know they’re asynchronous functions and loading now takes 300ms, but this is just during development, bro. I know I’ve inlined about 7 different things that should be seprate, but that was necessary to fix the previous last bug. I swear, I’m almost done. This is the last bug to fix, bro.

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My general tip (disclaimer: i am generally a newbie): don't be afraid of rewriting code, if you bodge one thing it will get you later twice over