Alright, let’s talk about what went down today. I decided to call this session my ‘blooper braves’ run because, man, it felt like facing down a whole army of little mistakes, my own mostly.
So, I started off trying to clean up some old code I wrote a while back. Thought it would be easy, you know? Just go in, tidy things up, make it run a bit smoother. Famous last words. First thing I did, literally within minutes, was accidentally mess up the main loop. Just completely borked it. Didn’t even realize immediately, just ran it and got total garbage output.
That was the first blooper. Instead of freaking out, I just took a breath. Okay, fine. Step one, figure out what I just broke. Went back through my changes, line by line. Took a good twenty minutes just to spot the stupid typo I’d introduced. Felt like an idiot, but hey, fixed it. That’s the ‘braves’ part, I guess? Just pushing through the dumb moments.
Getting Deeper into the Mess
Okay, loop fixed. Moved onto the next part. This involved integrating a small library I hadn’t used before. Followed the basic instructions, seemed straightforward. Nope. Hit a wall of errors. Not helpful errors either, just weird cryptic messages. Spent maybe an hour on this. Tried a few different ways to connect things, looked up examples online (carefully, no copy-pasting nonsense).
Found out the real issue wasn’t the library itself, but how I was feeding data into it. Another blooper. My data format was slightly off. It needed things in a specific order I hadn’t noticed.
Here’s the kind of stuff I ran into:
- Wrong data types being passed.
- Missing initialization steps.
- Order of operations totally mixed up.
- Just plain typos again, hiding in plain sight.
It was frustrating. Felt like every step forward involved tripping over my own feet first. Had to keep reminding myself, just keep plugging away. Debug, test, change one thing, test again. Slow process. Real slow.
By the end of the day, did I finish the cleanup? Not entirely. But I got past those major roadblocks. The main loop works again, and the new library is actually talking to my code now, mostly behaving. It wasn’t pretty, lots of trial and error, lots of ‘ugh, really?’ moments. But faced the mistakes, didn’t just throw my hands up. That felt like a small win. That’s the ‘blooper braves’ for you – just tackling the goofs head-on and moving forward, even if it’s messy.
