[yrgulation]

Aah this reminds me of my early days in software development. One time i had to recompile qmail over and over with debug printfs just because i couldnt figure out why it didnt work. Spent two weeks on it. Turns out i had the wrong permissions on a directory. Felt like an idiot. Could have used strace or something better instead - or heck i could have the manual! I still feel like that when i pick a radically different to what i am used language. 7 years ago when i first tried Haskell i thought to my self: “bro can you even code? what am i even doing here?”.

Fast forward to today and i usually get a “feeling” about why things might not work, and dont even need to dig deep to figure out why, i just “know”. Thats called experience. Comes with time and practice. Gradually you develop a sense to why or how things should work, and thats why experience is valuable.

So give yourself time. And sleep - sleep sometimes lets your mind work on solutions, hence the expression “we’ll sleep on it”.