I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
The thing that trips me up time and again is trusting software. Today I've spent about half an hour tailoring a series of queries in the query pane of Sequel Pro, without saving them to a text file. So when the app crashes, I lose everything. I learn from my mistakes for about a week and then gradually fall back into the lazy old me who expects things to work.
I do this too! We're using pgAdmin, and sometimes it crashes and I haven't bothered to save the query. Most of the time I'm using it, the queries are only needed for a short while, so not a big deal. But that one time I am using it to prototype developing real queries and don't save is when pgAdmin crashes and I have to start over.
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The thing that trips me up time and again is trusting software. Today I've spent about half an hour tailoring a series of queries in the query pane of Sequel Pro, without saving them to a text file. So when the app crashes, I lose everything. I learn from my mistakes for about a week and then gradually fall back into the lazy old me who expects things to work.
I do this too! We're using pgAdmin, and sometimes it crashes and I haven't bothered to save the query. Most of the time I'm using it, the queries are only needed for a short while, so not a big deal. But that one time I am using it to prototype developing real queries and don't save is when pgAdmin crashes and I have to start over.