This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Sumit Roy
Monday feels like encountering a bug that only happens in production and somehow works perfectly in your local environment. Classic Monday energy.
Last Week’s Win 
Successfully migrated from that legacy API everyone was afraid to touch. Turns out the “complex business logic” was just a bunch of if-else statements that could’ve been a simple switch case. Sometimes the scariest dragons are just lizards with good PR.
Today’s Debugging Strategy
The Rubber Duck Method: Explain your Monday to an imaginary rubber duck (or your coffee mug, I don’t judge). Sometimes just saying “I have 47 Slack notifications and my build is failing” out loud makes it feel more manageable.
Monday Developer vs Friday Developer
Friday Me: “I’ll definitely remember what this function does without comments”
Monday Me: Stares at my own code like it’s written in ancient Sanskrit
Also Monday Me: “Who wrote this garbage?”
checks git blame
Monday Me: “Oh. It was me. On Friday.”
Life hack: Write code comments like you’re explaining it to Monday You after a three-day weekend. Be specific. Be kind. Monday You has the memory retention of a goldfish with anxiety.
Monday Startup Checklist
Caffeine levels: Acceptable for human operation?
Did I remember my laptop charger this time?
Are all my weekend side-project commits pushed? (Asking for a friend…)
Email count below “abandon all hope” threshold?
Expectations calibrated to “minimum viable productivity”?
You’re doing great. Really.
Monday Mantra
“Every bug is just a feature waiting to be discovered. And if it’s not, that’s what hotfixes are for.”
Remember: Even the best developers have Mondays where they spend 2 hours debugging only to realize they were looking at the wrong file. It’s not you, it’s Monday.
What’s keeping your Monday sane? Share your debugging strategies in the comments – let’s build a community troubleshooting guide for Monday motivation!
Tomorrow: Tech Tip Tuesday (hint: it involves making your time productive)
Part of the 
Daily Dev Doses series – because every developer needs their daily vitamins
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Sumit Roy