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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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This came to me while being in bed, staring at the ceiling for too long for too little reasons.

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[–] MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, My shower thoughts are usually along the lines of "hmmm, the webhook handler keeps running into race conditions while modifying the record... The job queue should be handling it... But it's not for some reason ... There was that one refactor from a while back.... Ohhhhh the events aren't being queued because the refactored event hander was created before, but merged after, the job queue was introduced. I bet it isnt dispatching events to the queue so it's running the tasks in parallel... Fuck I should probably rinse and get out of the shower."

Hand squeegee yourself off before using your towel and it will get you much drier.