MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Just fixed a bug that's been bothering me for the past 5 days - partly it's why I'm on here so much, I need something brainless to do whilst I'm figuring it out.
So satisfying. It's like finally conquering a feature that's been freaking me out.
Anything outside mountain biking that gives you similar satisfaction?
tabs instead of spaces in your yml?
Not that some members of my team have been plagued by that or anything over the past week 🤬
Came here expecting to read about insects and the like.
But I work with code. Was the bug your own or someone elses? Nothing more satisfying than finding someone elses bug. Until you realise you have to tell them.
It's my own. I'm a hobbyist, not a professional.
Then I’ll tell you what’s nice when working in a team - you find someone else’s bug, pluck up the courage to tell them, and they say “oh yeah! Awesome! Fixed!”.
My best bug fix happened one night while I was doing the washing up. I was working on a sim project and some objects were doing really weird stuff, and while stood at the sink I realised that we needed to change to spherical polar coordinates rather than cartesian.
When I'm coding a lot, I dream in code, and quite often answers come to me.
Well whilst we're on the subject, anyone know why my Flask framework stopped accepting POST requests?
Not a fricking clue why loads of routes no longer work for POST, but still work for GET.....
I just painted a car for the first time.
Dev rush
Used to do hobbyist coding with a view to a career. Unfortunately the things I were passionate about coding required a greater mental capacity than I had, and my math especially was insufficient. Still put a big chunk of my free time into it. Used to love having a big sprawling chunk of code living in my brain so when an adaption came or a bug un earthed I'd know where in the code to look. Some bugs far moor evasive though needed stepping through each line of code of a live process with gdb or valgrind to reveal that null pointer. Then have to pull myself away to go work in some factory mindlessly stacking buckets as they came out of an injection moulding machine. Never made code a career and have stopped coding since landing a more creative career direction.
Try getting involved with open source projects if you want to develop your skills further.
Not necessarily finding bugs but simply thinking of an idea and making it work in an app or similar is very satisfying for me.
Started at a hobby and somehow managed to evolve it into something useful that some people find useful and are now paying for every month.
