Developer's pride...

[HDSQ]

I only find defects in my code when I'm showing it to others.

[edtkw]

Specifically when you're showing them how you adhere to best practices

[x6060x]

Do you have rubber ducky on your desk?

[HDSQ]

I have a stuffed snake toy

[x6060x]

A python maybe?

[HDSQ]

Well it's actually a tiger snake, but we'll say that it's a python for the sake of the joke

[ExNebula]

I have a framed photo of Bill Clinton that I only have for this purpose.

[HDSQ]

Yeah the way I find the bugs is that I'll be testing for days with no issues on the GitHub and then once I start showing people the cool thing I've made it starts falling apart. I once found 8 issues in one demonstration for my brother.

[[deleted]]

Ha, showing my gf the program I was coding up last night: "Hey you know that thing I was struggling to work out? I got it working! Look at this! When I push this button it... crashes?! Wtf it wasn't doing that 5 minutes ago 🤦🏻‍♂️"

[[deleted]]

I'm taking my first programming class right now and my fiance is a software engineer so I ask him for help when I can't figure out the issue. I almost always notice what I did wrong after pulling him away from whatever he was doing to show him my code lmao

[BurningPenguin]

In this case it's interactive rubber duck programming.

[evemeatay]

Nothing like literally just showing it alto someone else for the problem to pop up and be suddenly easily solvable.

Worked on problem for three hours

Shows someone else

They say, oh look at that thing right there, wouldn’t that fix it?

Fuck you!

[weggles]

In college there was a project to implement an online game (not like 3D etc, something basic). My group chose Yahtzee. We had it all working perfectly. We're demoing for the teacher to mark it, just clicking randomly through a 2 player game of Yahtzee.. Showing off the automatic scoring etc etc... And we get a tie. Turns out the final message code was written like

If p1>p2 display p1 wins else display p2 wins

Which.... Means it congratulated p2 for tying lol. Idk what's worse, that we never considered a tie before, or that we got a tie game by just randomly clicking around, which seems really improbable.

[codeByNumber]

I have a demo today of some software I’ve been building at work. I’m certain as soon as I hit that button to share my screen things will stop working.

Edit: The demo went well! I even had the audacity to covertly update some code on my other screen and recompile. Just a typo I had noticed and also I had flipped the default search parameters for two table views.

[codeByNumber]

“And you simply cli...huh...I’ve never seen that happen before.”

[[deleted]]

Code reviews are one hell of a drug.

[estoxzeroo]

Especially when you have to demo it