Tell me a coding confession

What’s a habit or behavior you probably wouldn’t put on your resumé?

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[Jesse Phillips]

I write all my scripts in D because I hate all other scripting languages.

[Caleb Brock]

I too often have to go back and fix typos I find in docs, comments, or strings because I forget to proofread.

[sebkolind]

Might not be directly related to coding, but I spend way to much time on vim colors.

[Idan Arye]

I'm addicted to black magic. I'd rather spend two hours on a metaprogramming solution than 10 minutes on a straightforward solution.

[Ben Halpern]

😱

[tom hermans]

• I am not very good at estimating.
• I tend to look at too much best practices, which gets me confused sometimes.

[Noah Prail]

I have NEVER written code tests. Ever.

[Gregor Gonzalez]

Sometimes I overthink the smallest task, making myself slow. is this correct? Can I improve it? Is there any better way? Am I using the correct standard? it's updated? and I spend hours reading, searching.

When I code I try to finish a process without performing debugging and in the end perform tests "ohh run to the first time"

I try not to memorize things because I think they will change it later. So I'm dedicated to remembering how to search it in google. Too many frameworks.

I still depend on google and stackoverflow. And although I know English, I still look for words that I do not understand in Google translator.

[Daragh Byrne]

I've made it up as I went along. I really don't know much about formal CS (despite nearly 20 years of professional development experience) - I've never really studied it. I feel like a fraud most of the time.

Oh and on one job I lost the company $100k in my first week on the job.

[Expert Amateur]

I have a habit of googling for someone I don't know how to do and finding my own blog posts because I learned it, did it, wrote about it, and completely forgot about the entire experience. This has happened on multiple occasions.

[Gregor Gonzalez]

I do the same. I wrote a blog with some solved problems so I can have it at hand.