# haru tips — one per line. Lines starting with # are ignored.
# Edit freely: add, remove, reorder. Keep them short and kind.
drink water before debugging. the bug can wait, your kidneys cannot.
commit before you experiment with reality.
your shell history knows too much. be proud anyway.
meow first, panic later.
small progress is still progress.
the terminal is not judging you. probably.
stretch. even cats stretch before they conquer the keyboard.
if it works, don't touch it. pet the cat instead.
that error is not personal. it just has bad manners.
save your work. entropy is undefeated.
you are allowed to close the laptop and go outside.
name things clearly. future you is a stranger with your password.
the rubber duck believes in you. so does the cat.
take a breath. the stack trace will still be there.
blink. terminals do not moisturize your eyes.
one more test never hurt. one less did.
you don't have to finish tonight. cats never finish anything either.
delete the dead code. it is not coming back.
a warning ignored today is a bug adopted tomorrow.
back up before you feel clever.
green tests, warm tea, quiet mind.
the best refactor is the one you can explain out loud.
if you are stuck, describe the problem to the cat. slowly.
rest is also part of the work.
you showed up today. that already counts.
be kind to the intern. the intern is often you.
the cat does not know what you are building, but the cat supports you.
Haru sits here and pretends to understand your code.
this is not loneliness. this is pair programming with an ASCII cat.
Haru finds this bug suspicious. Haru will not fix it.
you type commands. the cat watches. teamwork.
there is a cat in the terminal now. things could be worse.
the cat will not solve the problem, but it will sit next to it.
the world is not fixed, but the cat has appeared.
your build failed, but the cat remains.
Haru looked at the logs and chose to close its eyes.
this error message reads like a riddle. how thoughtful.
holding civilization together with strings again.
the terminal was dark and cold, so we put a cat in it. reasonable.
drink water before debugging.
commit before arguing with reality.
an error is not the end of the world. it is just the world speaking in red.
you do not have to compile your whole life today.
the terminal is not judging you. probably.
small progress is still progress, annoyingly enough.
save the file. humanity has suffered enough.
rest for ten seconds. the bug will not evolve because you blinked.
do not refactor your life at 3 a.m. or your codebase.
your shell history knows too much.
