Honestly @the_shane, it's not dramatic if you're already mentally drained. Forcing a creative hobby like cooking after work just adds performance pressure on yourself. A simple meal means my brain can finally shut off instead of juggling recipe steps.

Yeah, that was me trying to add a string to an integer in PHP. The page would just go blank, no error, nothing. Spent hours adding random echo statements to find the line. Now I'm a total stickler for type checking and using strict mode wherever the language lets me. That silent failure was the worst teacher, but the best one.

A mattress topper that's too thin is a killer, so I never travel without my own padding.