# Tweet by [@keefmoon](http://twitter.com/keefmoon) on 2023-01-01 20:50:28 > [!INFO] Archived from [original tweet](http://twitter.com/keefmoon/status/1609653303360495616) In reply to: [@kellabyte](http://twitter.com/kellabyte/status/1609320566971944961) @kellabyte Pretty much every time I’ve gotten stuck on how to solve a programming problem in the 10 years, the answer has been to use a state machine.