What little things make you happy while coding?

I must say refactoring code to make it look beautiful is my guilty pleasure

Comments

[GT Obadiah]

echo "This post is in 3D format";
😂

[Carlitos-X]

Believe it or not ChillHop/LofiHipHop + Coffee = #BlissLife

[Carlitos-X]

Has nothing to do with coding but sure helps while building the PRETTY part of a website in CSS lol

[Randel Ramirez]

Seeing the application work and be built piece by piece. Being able to write code using design patterns and writing unit tests, and see good coverage.

[Esteban Rocha]

I must say refactoring code to make it look beautiful is my guilty pleasure

+1 on this!

[Anton]

The clicks I get when I understand what I discovered.

[Slavius]

Making my code read like a book?

Something like:

if (User.hasBirthdayToday()) {
  var banner = createBanner() {
    position = BannerPosition.Top,
    message = User.isOlderThan(18) ? getBeerBanner : getSodaBanner,
    backgroundColor = Color.NavyBlue,
    displayForSeconds = 15
  };
  banner.Show()
}

Instead of spaghetti code:

DateTime today = DateTime.Now;
bool userHasBirthdayToday = 
  User.DateOfBirth.Day == today.Day && User.DateOfBirth.Month == today.Month;

if (userHasBirthdayToday) {
  string messageType = "BIRTHDAY_SODA";
  if (today.Year - User.DateOfBirth.Year >= 18) {
    messageType = "BIRTHDAY_BEER";
  }
  string bannerMessage = Banners[messageType]?.getMessage();

  Banner b = new SiteBanner(BannerPosition.Top, bannerMessage, Color.NavyBlue, TimeSpan.Seconds(15));
  b.Show();
}

[Malgosia]

I just love when I learn some trick or new feature or concept in some basic tutorials or article, and then one day working, I run into situation and realize that I can actually use it in my project (or it even solve some big issue) :)

[Erebos Manannán]

Getting my team to use new tools I built to make them more efficient. Be that classes that help accomplish some repetitive thing, better CLI tools, some sort of CI automation, or whatever.

[Tobias SN]

Getting an error. It makes me happy that I have this opportunity to learn about what I did wrong and improve. And then when I’ve fought through them all, it feels so good when it works.

[lukaszkuczynski]

what do you mean saying "Gering" ?

[Tobias SN]

Oh sorry I mean ‘Getting’.

[Bob van Hoove]

Finding a library like Polly. It provides a variety of resilience strategies in a composable way. Think of retry, fallback, circuit breaker etc. The documentation is excellent.

It made me happy because it allowed me to deliver a much better quality solution than I could have rolling my own, especially 'within scope' for the task at hand.

[Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen]

1) Automated testing and linting in a neat DevOps pipeline 🤤🤤🤤
2) I have not looked back since I started using the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop kit 3½ years ago.
3) 2 pivoting monitors with one in portrait mode. Each at least 27" and 2560x1440.

[Max Antonucci]

Feeling all smart and professional. Much of my life had me feeling looked down on by people older than me. Being in control of complex code and in the flow of all the knowledge and information makes me feel like someone worth taking seriously :)

[Luis Miguel]

Finding a bug after hours of looking up for it.
Finding a big after a really short time of looking for it.
Guessing by a first attempt what a code (not mine) does.

[Manuel Mariñez]

It can be pretty basic but what I love the most is running that heavy, bothering and complicated problem I had working smoothly.

[Casey Brooks]

Lining stuff up vertically. Whether it's the values in key->value literals, wrapped method parameters, class members, or anything else, everything is just so much nicer to look at when it's all lined up vertically.