He/Him/His
I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
He/Him/His
I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
Lol, it wasn't a consistent misspelling, it's just a long word I kept fat-fingering.
What was most frustrating was that I wouldn't get a consistent "no method 'intialize'" error, it's just that I wasn't getting expected behavior and it would take me forever to realize it's because my initialize method wasn't being called!
He/Him/His
I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
Programming has helped me discover that I truly never learned "I before E except after C". I'm always misspelling the BadgeAchievement model in the dev.to codebase.
As a Canadian I occasionally have hangups with keywords like color. Phil, you probably feel this too.
He/Him/His
I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
Unrelated, but my last job had a referrals-based business model, so you can imagine the referrals table in their database was the most important table with indexes on almost every other table in the database.
It was spelled referalls, and every table apparently has its own convention of whether to name their column referall_id or referral_id ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
I once fixed a misspelling in a codebase without realizing that the name was coming from an external API's response so my correction broke everything. Misspellings that you can't fix are very frustrating.
He/Him/His
I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
He/Him/His
I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
When I was doing Ruby I always misspelled
initialize
!How did you spell it? As a Brit I am, of course, offended by the "z" and think it should be
initialise
anyway.Lol, it wasn't a consistent misspelling, it's just a long word I kept fat-fingering.
What was most frustrating was that I wouldn't get a consistent "no method 'intialize'" error, it's just that I wasn't getting expected behavior and it would take me forever to realize it's because my initialize method wasn't being called!
Ah, the nightmare of a misspelled constructor. It's there, it's just pretending it's a regular method. Cheeky. And hard to track down. ๐ก
What are you writing things in most at the moment? And is it saving you from constructor woes?
These days I work mostly in Go, but even in languages with constructors I struggled with them enough that I now recognize a misspelled one sooner.
Programming has helped me discover that I truly never learned "I before E except after C". I'm always misspelling the
BadgeAchievement
model in the dev.to codebase.As a Canadian I occasionally have hangups with keywords like
color
. Phil, you probably feel this too.That's why we have postcss-spiffing.
Top Tip!
Rename the
BadgeAchievement
model toBadgeAcheivement
and never have this problem again!I'm sure there are things like this in the code already ๐ญ
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Unrelated, but my last job had a referrals-based business model, so you can imagine the referrals table in their database was the most important table with indexes on almost every other table in the database.
It was spelled
referalls
, and every table apparently has its own convention of whether to name their columnreferall_id
orreferral_id
๐คฆโโ๏ธI once fixed a misspelling in a codebase without realizing that the name was coming from an external API's response so my correction broke everything. Misspellings that you can't fix are very frustrating.
@yechielk At least that's just in one app and not the Referer header supported in every web browser and server in the world.
Come to think of it, I bet the
Referer
header has caused multiple spelling confusions leading to things like this.@halldjack Oh no! You must have thought you were fixing a bug instead of causing it. That's the worst!
Yes! Someone pointed out the referer header to me once, and I instantly felt better for the poor developer who created that
referalls
table...are we sure they didnโt mean โrefer allโs intentionally? you know, all of the refered people. or referred?
never give in
Lol, yes, we're sure ๐
Same! Also I type
reutrn
way more often then I typereturn
. Every. Time.Looking for an error for way too long many times and finally realizing there's a "form" instead of "from" or vice versa.
for me it's retrun lol
i also embarrassingly wrote pubic instead of public during a tech talk
Iโve done similar typos with โcountryCodeโ ๐๐