That week in March when my Python script finally ran without errors

I spent three days straight trying to get this web scraper to work, and every time it crashed on line 47. I was about to give up, but then I found a free online course from a guy named Kevin in Toronto that explained loops in a way that finally clicked. I rewrote the whole thing, ran it, and it just worked, pulling data from 100 pages like it was nothing. Has anyone else had a moment where one small tutorial made a huge block of code finally make sense?

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jordant694mo ago

That feeling when a single YouTube video fixes your entire weekend of broken code.

davis.mia4mo ago

Was it one of those Kevin Powell CSS videos? That guy saved my front end project last month. I had this layout that would not line up right on mobile no matter what I tried, and his flexbox explanation made it seem so simple. Felt like a lightbulb went off, and I fixed it in like ten minutes after being stuck for two days.

henrys742mo ago

That Kevin guy is the real MVP for sure. Something nobody talks about though is how the time of day you're coding can mess with your brain. I swear I tried the same loop fix at 2am and it failed, then tried it again at noon and it worked perfectly. Probably just sleep deprivation making me miss a semicolon, but still. Also line 47 always seems to be the cursed line in any script, why is that always the one that breaks?