Anatomy of a Weekend Engineering Project - The Developer Cycle

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The Anatomy of a Weekend Engineering Project

Every weekend project seams to follow the same predictable, painful, and rewarding cycle.

  1. The Overconfidence: "Oh, this will be easy. An hour, tops."
  2. The Inevitable Wall: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
  3. The Pure Satisfaction: The relief when it finally works, hours later, and you can go back to watching Dune.

It is a universal developer experience.

(me, migrating a server from #DigitalOcean to Hetzner all morning)

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.

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