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As I've matriculated as a coder I've noticed several watershed moments in my development of the craft.
It has to do with what I typically swear at.
Over the years,
I've gone from primarily swearing at the languages for not having what I want
To primarily swearing at the compiler for not doing what I want
To primarily swearing at my IDE and toolchains for breaking
Real programmers use butterflies
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So to borrow an interview question...
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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I honestly hate that interview question.
I like to keep my options open. The best parts of life can be the parts I didn't expect. When I was 17 I was homeless and I didn't see myself at Microsoft at 18. There I was.
I don't plan out my life. Living is for closers.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: When I was 17 I was homeless and I didn't see myself at Microsoft at 18. There I was.
I've always found it amusing how people imagine Microsoft employees in business suits. It's more like pink hair, blue hair, mowhawks, nose rings mixed with regular people from all over the world and from all walks of life.
Even have full size kegs of beer in some of the buildings. 
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Beer and pizza fridays. Nobody cared that I wasn't 21. 
ETA: I totally identify with Cameron from Halt and Catch Fire. She was a woman after my own heart.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I loved that TV series (Halt and Catch Fire). It seemed as if it was a biography of my life.
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dandy72 wrote: Where What do you see yourself swearing at in 10 years?
FTFY
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's exactly what I meant. I think codewitch went a little too literal with her answer.
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Don't say "doing your wife"[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Heh, never got the 10 year question. At the first place I worked at out of college I got the 'what my career goal was' question. I told them to retire! They didn't really like that answer
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Over the years?
..swearing at the PC.
Swearing at the wife.
Swearing at an empty fridge (shortly after the previous)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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0) Get Coffee
1) Start coding project A
2) Eat breakfast
3) Start design project B
4) Get coffee refill
5) Layout schematic for project C
6) Finish filling in Green drain field that was created over last 3 days. (Yay can washes dishes and laundry again) Old drain field lasted a year, was under designed so refacotred.
7) Eat lunch
8) Read chapter book A
9) Coffee refill
10) Read chapter book B
11) Try to remember where I was on project A and why it's not working...debug between swearing seasons.
12) Bang head repeatability
13_ Investigate proposed QUICK project for better half and decide it's going to be anything but quick but start it anyway.
14) Eat supper
15 Watch a little Netflix
16) Go to bed exhausted wondering why in the hell I didn't get anything accomplished.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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My list has expanded to:
Swearing at the .NET Framework
Swearing that 3rd party API's
Swearing at JavaScript
Swearing at TypeScript
The only reason that swearing at front-end "frameworks" is not on the list is because I was doing so much swearing I decided it's simpler, better, faster, easier and frankly safer to not use any.
Occasion swearing at jqWidgets, which is the only front-end UI library I use. It's awesome until it isn't, but even then it's better than the rest of the shyte out there (granted, I haven't worked much with Telerik or DevExpress, because I don't want to buy into ASP.NET, which would be more swearing.)
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Soon you'll be swearing at old code (by some anonymous coder)...
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Super Lloyd wrote: Soon you'll be swearing at old code (by some anonymous coder you)...
FTFY
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I'm simple folk. I just swear at Microsoft for screwing with developers in the last 10+ years.
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John Torjo wrote: I just swear at Microsoft for screwing with developers in the last 10+ years.
They've been at it for far longer than just the last 10 years.
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Obviously But roughly 10 years ago, they made it their mission
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You've still got ways to go before you're at my level.
I'm primarily swearing at myself for my solution from last year
All in all I'm just swearing a lot.
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She will not!
Because Codewitch code is perfect right of the bat as soon as finished at day 8,845. Before that it is still in progress, so imperfections are fine and replaced by obsessive compulsive progressively minute improvements... 
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I can surely attest to the IDE part.
No MDI code windows without getting into a fistfight with the IDE.
No built in user recorded macros, had to find an add-on.
I could go on...
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Hm, for the first 15 or so years of my career I was an assembly language programmer (embedded engineer). Really couldn't swear at the language or the assembler. There was no IDE so no swearing there. After C/C++ became a viable option for embedded work, I was able to swear at the IDE's (mostly the debugger). Over all in my career, most of my swearing has been at management.
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I went from doing stuff the way it's been done before, assuming there is genius there I'm just too inexperienced to recognize, to recognize unmaintainable rat's nests for what they are, questioning everything, from architecture to workflows.
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A few months ago I posted a question asking about any podcasts that people found interesting.
There are few that I've liked consistently.
DotNetRocks guys are quite good, but most of the others vary a lot in quality / interest-keeping ability.
However, I stumbled upon The CoRecursive podcast[^] by Adam Gordon Bell and it is really fantastic.
It's very high quality & will keep you listening.
The latest episode that focused on Hansen Hsu and his time at Apple (on OS 9 -- pre OsX) was very interesting.
The podcast is always filled with a lot of insight into the challenges that occur at companies while we work as devs.
The Leaving Debian[^] episode was quite interesting.
Do any of you already listen to this podcast?
FYI - I'm not affiliated in any way with CoRecursive but I like to pass great content & ideas along when I can.
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