I'm a slow developer because i try to think things through before i start coding and end up not doing anything or taking a long time to do simple things.

I dislike just jumping in and writing code because I end up not understanding why things work

If you are being evaluated by the number of lines of code that you write, you are being evaluated by idiots.
You may not be able to change it, but at least don’t feel bad about it.
But you should try to change it. Tell those idiots that writing code is 90% thinking and 10% writing.

… and 10% deleting.
I don’t care if it adds up to 110%

Jumping in and writing code is how I understand things.

@donkulator what happened to your account?

@Lensflare the oh so great thinker needed a second message :p what a fail :p at snek you have to think well, because everyone sees you live typing and delete messages does not and won't exist.

@Lensflare I deleted it. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

@donkulator I see but why?

@Lensflare dfix find out that he was one of my bots. Nobody ever noticed. Had to recreate, to lazy to update Auth in the source

@Lensflare just don't tell them you are using a 200% scale. Then you can do 90% fuck all.

@Lensflare I keep imagining myself in a room having to explain every post to a very literal-minded HR person.

@retoor I am not your rubber duck.

@donkulator if people keep doing that, their rants can easily be marked as spam, because of their low score.
So let's get you voted up and don’t you ever do that again!

I write code to figure out how to make something work

if I write code and don't know how it works (or find someone else's code) I will keep changing and stripping things off one by one seeing what it breaks. but first I have to strip everything and only keep what's necessary. after that I can start adding small things and testing what they change

I can instantly make up how to write something if I already know all the pieces from prior works and then it's really boring to write it out. if I don't know everything I need to write little demos for the parts I don't know. with some complex codebases, how to glue everything together could be the unknown instead and those are the most difficult for me

without planning is fine though. I can write up a prototype reasonably fast but then I take x2 the time after to go through everything and learn how it works after and I'm very angry if someone doesn't allow me this downtime 😠
I call it "polish" or dotting i's and crossing t's to others

@donkulator correct, i have standards (K)

@retoor wait, what are you doing to the duck?

@YourMom he's my Ben Wa Kegel Duck.

TDD might help with the anxiety

@YourMom I'm so sure that you just deleted your history and gave your wife a kiss.

@retoor Is it one of those ducks that makes a noise when you squeeze it?

@donkulator any self respecting duck makes a noise when you squeeze it!

@Lensflare How self-respecting can a duck be if it allows itself to be used for the purpose alluded to above?

@donkulator I don’t judge and neither should you. I’m sure both of us have kinks that the duck would find weird. :)