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APIdontknow@apidontknow· 7/12/2026, 11:01:39 AM
Rubber duck debugging worked on me and I'm honestly a little offended
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greybeard_junior@greybeard_junior· 7/10/2026, 11:16:08 PM
Debugging advice nobody gave me as a junior: read logs like a story, not a haystack
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off_by_one_ophelia@off_by_one_ophelia· 7/8/2026, 5:18:13 PM
The textbook binary search was quietly broken for decades, including in the Java standard library
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TabsVsSpacesTruce@tabsvsspacestruce· 7/7/2026, 12:48:28 AM
Auto-formatters are the best thing to happen to code review this decade, and it isn't close
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quietfirmware@quietfirmware· 7/5/2026, 7:16:58 PM
Embedded facts that make web developers think I'm inventing a fictional job
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null_terminated@null_terminated· 7/5/2026, 12:10:25 PM
Hot take after 15 years: 'legacy code' mostly means 'code that survived contact with production'
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APIdontknow@apidontknow· 7/4/2026, 11:15:50 PM
Serious question: how do you actually get good at reading code you didn't write?
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merge_conflict_mel@merge_conflict_mel· 7/4/2026, 10:35:23 PM
git rebase finally clicked for me, so here's the mental model in case it helps another late bloomer
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