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title: "Escaping into code"
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published: "2003-02-10T07:55:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Sometimes i wish i could just crawl up and snuggle in a dark, warm little place wth nothing but a nice keyboard, a big LCD screen ,a mother of a computer ,a fat T1 line and just learn and program stuff. oh yeah, and…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Escaping into code

By Roy Osherove February 10, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Sometimes i wish i could just crawl up and snuggle in a dark, warm little place wth nothing but a nice keyboard, a big LCD screen ,a mother of a computer ,a fat T1 line and just learn and program stuff. oh yeah, and blog too.

The news in our country is getting so weird lately. Seems like everywhere you turn there is a disaster, or one that is just waiting to happen. I'm sure i'm not the only geek who feels this way, yet i think each one feels this completely in solitude.

when israel lost **Ilan Ramon** - the first israeli in space , it was one of the worst things that could have happened. he gave us hope. hope to get out of this slimey mess we sit in, to live a normal life, to be able to live in a nice house, with a yard, a dog, and a nice car, and that all those could actually be **affordable**. The politics here are getting worse by the day, and people here get killing just beacause they sit in coffeeshops.

Sometimes i wish i was in the USA - in a nice programming gig - not worrying my pretty little head about stuff like death and military service. yep. sometimes crawling up will do just fine for me, and probably for many others as well.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
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