I watch nerdy films and understand the jargon they use...

"strip the headers..."

I bet it's like being a surgeon watching House

I'd like to be able to travel back in time to ask the writer of legacy code whether they were taking drugs when they wrote it... #WouldExplainWhy

In true Roko’s Basilisk fashion I would just do whatever the AI told me to do, because "IF YOU'RE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION, YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!"

My biggest distraction seems to be when I notice other problems in the code I'm fixing/modifying. I then spend too long putting things right!

When I was little my brother and I got a ZX Spectrum 128k (James Bond edition) for Christmas. I started writing the programs to show a clock, union jack and other bits and bobs from one of these books. After probably 20ish years of not writing any code I went to university and graduated last year. I now work as helpdesk/software developer. But the ZX Spectrum programming started it all!

@DeclaringVariablesWithNamesThatAreProbablyTooLong

I used an ISNULL(Value_1, Value_2) IS NOT Null today and despite it being 'correct' it just seems very wrong

(slightly off topic) but we had a discussion about a kinder chocolate advert yesterday. The one where "Teddy is very very not very well" I was surprised at how it split the developers. My view was that a 'very' cancels out 'not very' leaving teddy 'very well'. The alternative view was each 'very' increments the 'not very' status.

I just thought I'd throw that out there for you all!

I usually review my code and if it doesn't look right it needs improving (even if it works). I hate when I see code that I know is flawed. My coding skills are weak but it's easy to spot crap code

My Final Year Project used robotics, speech recognition, body mapping and it was possibly the coolest thing I've ever done. I did it to be balls out ambitious as I wanted an impressive project to help me get a job...

In work we have a ticketing system for changes etc. I try and do a bit of each at a time so it looks like I have loads to do... Then I finish all of them together and clear my tickets

I've just spent the morning writing a C# program that pops up a message when I say hello. It's the most basic thing when I look at it now but as I was writing it you'd swear I was breaking technological boundaries!

I hope I'm not alone getting the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you write some code that is beautiful. I know beautiful is a strange choice of words but I find the efficient simplicity of good code to be beautiful!

Getting frustrated with errors I can't replicate or identify! After spending ages trying to find what's gone wrong and failing, its so embarrassing to suggest "try logging off and logging back in again"

Today in work I spotted a shoddy solution within the system. When I looked up who'd implemented it I found out it was me 6 months ago... Feel like going back in time and giving myself a slap