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A surprisingly soured reaction has come over me. Feeling giddy about sweeping up code is now absent. It sucks because I find myself middle-aged. The bursts of dopamine are no longer an assertion of knowing as time accelerates hyperlinearly within my text editor.
I'm giving up on clean code, coming full circle in a game of sparking joy. If I feel good about mopping up code, I'll remind myself that it's lost time, which steals from what needs doing. Whatever I'm working on will be sullied over or thrown out, anyway.
Editor's note: Feel free to share this rant in your next code review.
With Marie Kondo giving up on sparking joy, so too am I in the text editor. While I wrote this short rant, my kids were out back, creating a new mess for Danielle Arcuri and me to clean. Enjoy!
Thanks to Jonathan Chu
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