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> Grant me the serenity to accept the bad code i shouldn't fix, the courage to change the code I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Well, It's really early in the morning and I've got the quote of the day already



This is a slightly modified version of the serenity prayer of AA fame.


Yes, I know, but I substituted that one in daily usage for just shouting "SERENITY NOW" at maximum volume.


That seems similar to the "God give me patience, but I need it RIGHT NOW" prayer.


> shouting "SERENITY NOW" at maximum volume.

I'm imagining the Silicon Valley scene where the character Gilfoyle has set up a loud death-metal automated noise that plays whenever the price of Bitcoin meets certain conditions... except the trigger is some kind of code-quality metric, the effect is my machine shouting at me to become serene.


live, laugh, cruft


Though I walk through the valley of technical debt I shall fear no eval


Ye who enter this cursed codebase, shall abandon all hope of fixing it.


Nor the CI test that fails each day




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