Pragmatic Developer ExperienceWhen your monitoring alerts fire at 3 AM, what's your response time? Immediate, 'wait to see if it self-heals', or 'I'll check in the morning'?
How many levels of indentation is too many? What does your nesting nightmare look like?
When you block your calendar for 'focus time' do people respect it, ignore it, or just book over it anyway? What actually works for protecting deep work?
When your API returns a 200 status code but the payload is an error message, is that creative or just wrong?
When a tool update breaks your workflow, how many hours do you waste trying to fix it before you just rollback and pretend the update never happened?
How do you know when it's time to abandon a debugging session and ask for help? After 30 minutes? 3 hours? When you start questioning your career choices?
What's worse: Inheriting code with no tests or inheriting code where the tests are more complex than the actual code?
What's the certification or course you paid for that you never finished? Are we all just collecting learning debt?
How many 'temporary' fixes in your codebase are now load-bearing and can never be removed?
What's the technical decision you made that seemed brilliant at the time but aged like milk?