My Code Works & I Don’t Know Why: A Love Story 💖
“A tale of mysterious success, accidental genius, and the purest form of growth: winging it until you win it.”
It started with a bug I couldn’t fix…
Then it turned into a feature I didn’t understand…
And now?
It works. My app runs. The logic is sound. The page renders beautifully.
There’s just one tiny detail.
I have absolutely no idea why.
Welcome to my dev diary. This is the love story of me and the one that compiled.
Act I: The Setup
Every developer has that one piece of code. The one where:
You tried everything,
You stared at the monitor for an hour,
You changed the same line 12 times,
You read more articles on Stack Overflow that you would like to admit,
You removed a semicolon out of pure spite,
And suddenly… it just worked.
No error. No console scream. Just silence. Glorious, working silence.
It’s that “miracle moment” when your screen goes from red to green, and you briefly consider updating your résumé to “JavaScript Sorceress.”
But behind that success is a truth we rarely admit:
I don’t know how we got here.
Act II: Denial, Acceptance, and console.log() Therapy
Let’s rewind to the debugging session that almost broke me.
The function kept returning
undefined.I added
console.log()s like confetti.I rewrote it three different ways and even sacrificed a test case to the code gods.
Then I deleted a random return statement just to feel something.
And then… it worked.
No explanation. No logic. Just vibes.
So I did what any responsible developer would do…..
I committed it to GitHub and added a comment:
Act III: The Accidental Genius
Now here’s the funny part.
The code kept working.
It passed QA. It made it to production. People praised the functionality like I had architected it with intention, clarity, and forethought.
“Wow, this feature’s implementation is so seamless!”
Why I’m Not Ashamed (Anymore)
Here’s the thing:
We often associate success with understanding every line, every behavior, every method. And yes—understanding is the goal. But if you’re learning, exploring, and piecing together solutions through trial and error, that’s real development too.
Sometimes the best way to grow is by:
Experimenting until something clicks
Reading the docs… again
Accepting the mystery and promising to revisit it later
Writing code that works, then learning why it works
What looks like accidental genius is often just gritty persistence + a little luck.
A Love Letter to Mystery Code
So, dear line of code that miraculously does what I need:
You confuse me.
You defy logic.
You pass every test I throw at you.
And I have absolutely no clue why.
But I love you.
I trust you.
And one day—I swear—I’ll understand you.
Probably.
If your code works and you don’t know why… that’s not failure. That’s growth in progress.
You showed up. You solved the problem. You kept going when your brain was melting like a forgotten async/await chain.
So comment your code. Bookmark that thread. Promise yourself you’ll circle back.
Because eventually, the pieces do click. The pattern reveals itself. You level up.
And until then?
Enjoy the magic.
Embrace the mystery.
And keep building, accidental genius.
