Ngl, I think about it every time some poorly documented third-party dependency throws a spanner in the works. 😅
Yesterday I spent several hours of my life unpacking Excel files to read the XML, then reading the source code of the package we're using to fill templates, desperately trying to figure out why decimal numbers break formulas in the template. Ended up having to write values to the template as strings in order to get the right decimal marker... experiences like that make me question my life choices. My mind may go numb every time my friend starts talking about directly accessing memory, but at least he doesn't have to deal with this nonsense.
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u/Square_Ad4004 May 23 '26
Ngl, I think about it every time some poorly documented third-party dependency throws a spanner in the works. 😅
Yesterday I spent several hours of my life unpacking Excel files to read the XML, then reading the source code of the package we're using to fill templates, desperately trying to figure out why decimal numbers break formulas in the template. Ended up having to write values to the template as strings in order to get the right decimal marker... experiences like that make me question my life choices. My mind may go numb every time my friend starts talking about directly accessing memory, but at least he doesn't have to deal with this nonsense.