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.