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TIL my music practice routine mirrors debugging code...
When I hit a wrong note, I just repeat that section until it's right. It's exactly like finding and fixing errors in my scripts... this mindset shift helped me stop getting frustrated.
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fionamurphy5mo ago
That public wince is the worst feeling.
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the_alice6mo ago
Oh please, it's not that deep. Messing up a chord is not the same as your whole website crashing because of one semicolon. One is just a bad sound, the other can break everything for actual people. It's a cute thought but let's not act like they're the same level of stress.
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wade_anderson6mo ago
Last Thursday at the open mic, a guy messed up a B minor so badly it physically hurt my ears. @the_alice, that single wrong note felt way more personally breaking than any server crash. At least the error 404 page doesn't make you wince in public. I'd take a downed website over that sound any day.
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lily_henderson6mo ago
Wait, hold up. The original post was about how practicing music feels like debugging, not which one is worse. When you mess up a note, you go back and fix it, just like with code. The stress is in the moment of finding and correcting the error. Sure, a website crash affects more people, but that doesn't mean the personal frustration isn't real.
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