When a 2-day task turns into a 2-week task 🙃
I’ll pull THIS story. It’ll be easy.
When a 3 month task turn into a 3 year one
14 hours into writing the script that was going to save you from doing the task yourself and you can’t quit now, too much time has been put into this endeavour.
“it’s a piece of cake” - famous last words
Is that metal? Did someone actually turn a tweet into a metal plaque? I’m not complaining, I think it’s funny.
This makes me wanna LOL and cry at the same time.
And then we find ourselves falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy.
I do love pinboard, btw.
If things were always as easy I thought they’d be my life would be a lot easier :/
I’m really feeling all those hours I spend learning vim to never use vim.
Aww, I don’t really code anymore and I’m in vim every day
Does it count if I’m in vi only because I don’t know how to exit? I have to buy a new computer every time.
I literally use vi/vim for everything that I can. I would use it for gmail if there was a way.
I was hoping to open this and see someone show you a plugin to do that
you know what? I’m done. “while(…”
Looks like a repost. I’m up voting it.
Oh man, this hit me right in the face 🫣.
So many times did I get myself into weeks, month and even years long projects thinking I’ll be done in an afternoon… feature creep and my need to fidget with my code because its not perfect yet…
