Laughed when I read this because I did almost the exact same thing but with a curly quote that my editor snuck in. Spent a whole Saturday morning staring at it, googling stuff like "javascript error not making sense," even closed my laptop and went for a walk to cool off. Came back, zoomed in on the code, and there it was, one dumb little character that looked fine to my eyeballs but was not the right one at all. The worst part is these mistakes never feel like real coding problems, they just feel like getting tripped by your own shoelace. Fixing it took two seconds and I felt both relieved and kind of dumb at the same time. For what it's worth, that feeling never totally goes away, you just get faster at spotting the dumb stuff as you go.

Get where you're coming from on this. I've got a folder on my laptop called "stuff that sucked" and I opened it up last year just to clear space, ended up writing 4,000 words off some dumb line about a vending machine that only sells expired snacks. The thing I couldn't finish at 25 suddenly made sense at 28 because I'd lived a little more, you know? Old ideas aren't dead, they're just waiting for you to catch up to them. That roof guy in a rainless town is a great hook too, honestly.