Agreed. Mypy pre-commit hooks are very useful if you’re starting a fresh project. Adding typing to an existing project which reuses variables with different types… We lost weeks to it.

JSON parsers are getting me recently. The error is somewhere on or after row 1, char 1. Maybe.

Possibly it’s a BOM issue, or someone used double quotes typed on a Mac keyboard. Good luck.

I have a shelf of ducks, and I organised for everyone in the company to get a branded rubber duck at our last meetup. But there’s apparently something special about trying to show buggy code to a real person.

Entirely the opposite for me. Code which I haven’t been able to get to run for days suddenly runs first time when I ask someone to do a code walkthrough with me. Infuriating.