Steph (crisis version)writing some code to read data into a dataclass object from a database, which sounds easy, but past me wrote the code that writes this data into the database in the first place
and past me was an ARSEHOLE.
listen sometimes I love that my background is in physics/astrophysics/research because I am an Extremely Good Problem Solver because of it, I'm used to not knowing how to do something and I am good at finding out how
but wow, I really could have done with some formal education in software development before I started developing software!
oh god I think I need regex for this, I'm going to cry
Matt@astronomerritt Ah, regex. The thing I learn occasionally to solve exactly one problem per year and forget immediately afterwards, ad infinitum
@mdc This is my experience with regex exactly.
Robert Buchberger@astronomerritt @mdc regex is a write-only language