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It’s More than Bits and Bytes.
Exploring the unavailing emotional attachment in coder’s work.
I take a deep breath in, then exhale slowly. Deployment scripts executed, no turning back now. I open the browser and hit refresh and see the code I written is working as intended. The anxiety and nervousness die down as this was my first lines of code pushed to production! 👊
A sigh of relief escapes, and I find myself going from a state of tension to one of pure joy; I am downright ecstatic, reveling in a celebratory mood that reflects the milestone I just reached. While this occurred over ten years ago I still remember the feeling vividly.
Needless to say, this feeling does not last forever. In fact, it is often quickly overcome by a sense of worry due to the ever present fear of bugs 🐛 in your code. There are now countless users pushing buttons every which way and interacting with your application in ways you may not have expected or tested for. That gut-wrenching feeling where you fear something was overlooked is ever present.
The code I’ve written is something that I am responsible for now. It is something that I wrote, I spent time testing, and I educated the team on.
I.. I.. I.. Yikes, is this all about me?
