Four in the morning. I finished the patch and got up from the desk. Six lines changed, three deletions. Eight months of my life for six lines. Eight months and no one else had touched this bug, and every standup the question had been why isn't it done yet. I read the diff once and hit send without ceremony, without the little satisfaction other people would have gotten from this. The kitchen window was dark. Tomorrow somebody would comment "nice, thanks" on the merge and that would be the sum of it. I went to bed angry about a thing that was technically a victory.
