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Re:Woodworking as an Escape from the Absurdity of Software by pavel_lishin on Saturday May 04, 2024 @11:06AM (#40258201)
Or finding that `savePaypalTransactionToDatabase` doesn't return the row ID, but instead returns true/false to indicate success, and not being able to easily refactor it because god knows where that function is being used, and what sorts of knock-on effects it can have, even with a decent IDE, and deciding "fuck it, I'll just write a wrapper around it that then queries for the

You know what, nevermind, it's Saturday, why am I thinking about work.

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