More often than not, solving problems through software is simple. The issue/requirements are there in front of you, clear and needing to be solved. Every once in a while though, something stands up and teaches me a lesson.
Every system relies on external components. Whether it’s a third-party library to help with a specific purpose (jQuery, ComponentOne), a runtime to compile applications against (.NET, Java), or a compiler library for simple operations (iostream, math.h), all systems have dependencies. They’re everywhere.
99 times out of 100, when something goes wrong with the code, it’s my fault. These are the cases I mentioned earlier: clear issues, simple solutions. It’s the tricky ones that exist outside my program’s black box, where creative coding and problem solving comes into the picture. These are the ones I like. They teach me to think outside the box, to not take anything for granted, and that above all, we’re all human.
It’s what makes software fun to write.
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