That's when you hack and slash and debug by friction. : p
Forging ahead thoughtfully, incrementally, and modularly balances the ratio a lo--oh hey a foreign codebase designed in an overengineered byzantine Lovecraftian fractal of thought death. 9999999:1
I find it reassuring to read these accounts. Even though I've been in the industry for years, I still have times (like this week), where I spend way too much time trying to do something that I feel shouldn't be that hard to do and imposter syndrome kicks in hard. A lot of what I see on hacker news is people at the top of their game, so it's nice to see people talking about actually struggling.
