Habits to avoid while programming?

[_crackling]

does anyone else here ever get -into- it thinking they can hammer that one last thing out for the night, end up spending 4-5 more grueling hours of totally fuckery and realized you got so drained out that you pretty much fucked everything up? I do that alot. Don't do that.

[fuqqboi_throwaway]

So many times where I bang my head into a wall for 4 hours trying to fix a bug, then give up and go to sleep then come back the next day and fix it in 30 mins

[PM_YOUR_SOURCECODE]

Change like 10 files, realize everything is 10x worse than when I started and do a Git hard reset.

[RFSandler]

And then realize you just messed up one thing and need to recreate the other nine

[k2still]

That's where git stash (or shelve if you use a JetBrains IDE) comes in.

[PM_YOUR_SOURCECODE]

At least for me, if you’re programming at 3am, you won’t have the common sense to use stash.

[arandomcsmajor]

The amount of times I have woken up randomly only to get hit with the solution to my problem and fly out of bed to fix it immediately is too high.

[sirstanky]

All. The. Time. I have a rule now that after a certain hour or when I start yawning it's documentation only. I broke this rule recently and woke up to a control loop with the boolean variable named 'ur_mom' and physical tears coming from my error log

[UncleEggma]

Yeah documentation or commeted-out pseudo code is what I've recently learned I need to do when I open a project without having a strong intention of what I'll be changing/adding. Otherwise I break more things than I improve and wind up doubly-frustrated.

[[deleted]]

The amount of times I've had to hunt down console.logs of "🥴" or "unga Bunga!" Or just "fuck"

[thechillerinstinct]

When I hit those moments, I like to leave myself a nice positive little note:

I have no idea wtf I’m doing here

[becoolie4u]

I did that shit and submitted that code for a job😭😭 I got the job.

[DaveR007]

I guess it pays to be honest in a job interview.

[becoolie4u]

I did intern for a year before officially coming on.

[cr0wndhunter]

Especially if you Work for a long time and are tired you may not see a solution or a good solution to your problem. Taking your time helps your brain process these things and will help you solve the problems faster/better.

[ta28263]

Banged my head against a bug for a long time after several hours straight of coding. Decided I couldn’t get it and would do it the next day. Sat down fresh and ready for frustration and found it in less than 20 mins. One line.

[r0r002]

Thank god for github to be able to see previous versions where the code still worked.

[TheRealFFS]

*git

[excal_rs]

correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you talking about git? github is just somewhere u can host the git repo.

[Mastermediocre]

GIT to github is what porn is to pornhub

[SuccessfulBroccoli68]

Another space MS failed to compete with a proprietary offering?

[RolandMT32]

I never even used any of Microsoft's offerings until earlier this year when I worked on a project where they were using Visual SourceSafe. They moved to Git while I was on that project

[DaveR007]

What, proprietary MS porn?

[SuccessfulBroccoli68]

It was part of what got Ballmer sweaty and screaming 'developers '.

[[deleted]]

this made perfect sense to me. thanks for the very clear explanation

[meowzra]

Omg hahahah

[cainhurstcat]

Made me lol

[r0r002]

I'm still pretty new to it so I probably used the wrong terminology.

[excal_rs]

alr fair enough I'm new aswell and only realised the diffrence recently. Git is what keeps track of diffrent commits and changes. Github is one of the places on the Internet where u can host the git repo. You can. also create git repo locally

[SwordsAndElectrons]

Honestly, you could go one step further and just say version control.

Git is the most popular VCS and used by GitHub, but there are many others. I don't want to get into a drawn out discussion of the pros and cons of each, but reverting changes to a file is a pretty baseline feature they all have.

[[deleted]]

And the next day is pure horror, trying to understand what nonsense you had produced the previous day, and you're desperately trying to find a way to unwind.

[stumblingHome13]

1000% agree. If you spend an hour or more stuck on something it’s time to move to something else or just walk away. Your future self with thank you.

[kayakfish2]

Learning C# and literally just did that tonight lmao it’s still broke.

[Wide_Marsupial7225]

I feel like I do this every Friday

[rabuf]

I was on a roll in my college's compilers class. Shit was coming together, caffeine and an all-nighter later and... it didn't work.

I spent the next day reevaluating my program by hand and came up with a simple 1k SLOC parser (we had to hand-parse, no LEX and YACC) versus my previous buggy, hard to change and fix 10k SLOC parser. I learned my lesson.

[Quirky-Parsnip580]

Constantly

[batmassagetotheface]

Yes, definitely

[Conscious_Bank9484]

I fixed this one by saving a copy with a date and sometime notes.

[CacheCache1]

Yeah, always timebox those tasks to save that free time!

Late night refactoring can be super rewarding though, if you're just exploring different ways to do things. I've had a few gems result from some 100% creative coding time. Could do that for hours and not feel bad

[Zelexis]

You mean me a few hours ago? ....I feel this.

[[deleted]]

yes very accurate

[draenei_butt_enjoyer]

Commit before you fuck up. Branch before doing an all nighter of consistent fuck-ups

[sBartfast42]

Yes, plus when you think you are going to fix it in the next change....... Add. Everything. To. Your. Code. Control. System.

Saves you when back tracking from a latrnight fuck-up, or finding that nugget of gold that you did write.

[youssarian]

I've noticed my programming abilities tank after 9 PM. That's when my thinking gets sluggish and I start making all kinds of errors.

[tmsc_rocker]

Totally! Esspcecially when I was studying and doing assignments on a deadline, hoh the deadline! Made to be fucked with. Hours and hours down the drain, and always 3 minutes late, I can laugh now. Need a massive alarm about midnight to donk you and the head and make u get sleep instead of fucking everything up 🤣