Oh man, I've needed a term for this for so long and have never realized it! Thanks! I remember one time, similar to the story linked but I was refactoring rath

Oh man, I've needed a term for this for so long and have never realized it! Thanks! I remember one time, similar to the story linked but I was refactoring rather than coding something new. I made a major breakthrough and, like the people in the article, I was very excited about it. Coworkers (who do low-level stuff - I do FP and CSS stuff) didn't see what was so great (it was clearly visually broken) until I said "Yes, but it's broken in just the right way that I can fix it!" They understood instantly. I think these kind of "black triangle successes" are something only programmers and mathematicians experience (they are the only two types of people that I've known to sympathize with the feeling.) It's like an invisible thread that connects all types of programmers, from FP guys to kernel guys to web developers to the three people still using Smalltalk to the guys in suits making InterfaceFactoryFactories. I love it.