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Accidental Tech Podcast

401: Sandwich-Closing Force

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 141 minutes

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0:00.0

We've been in a position where you haven't messed with a portion of your own code for a while,

0:04.0

and you think that something should be there that just straight up isn't there, and you're like,

0:07.4

hmmm, this is weird.

0:10.8

Because I'm diving into peekabee, which I haven't been looking at for a while, and I'm looking for something,

0:15.3

and I'm not finding it, and that's freaking me out.

0:16.8

Maybe you added it in a dream.

0:18.8

Yeah, I think.

0:20.0

I've had that happen a couple times.

0:23.0

How is the code that you've written in your dream?

0:25.1

Does it make sense?

0:26.1

I mean, I think it's pretty good.

0:28.5

Best case, you added it in your dream, and you remember how you did it.

0:31.7

So you could just do it again, but worst case, it's like, I added in a dream, and I was so happy

0:34.9

to have that thorny problem solve, but don't remember how I did it.

0:38.7

And then it's just like, well, in a dream, you can kind of gloss over the details,

0:41.6

because you know, it's just whatever dream logic, but then in real life, you actually have

0:45.6

that the code.

0:46.6

I have a cage.

0:47.4

I don't think I've ever actually coded in my sleep.

0:50.3

I have, however, fixed bugs right before falling asleep many times.

0:55.5

As my brain is clearing itself out for the night, right before I fall asleep,

0:58.8

I will occasionally realize, oh, either I will, either I will discover a bug

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