I Hate Screenshots of Text

During the course of a regular working day, I receive a lot of screenshots like this from well-meaning colleagues:

It's almost always in a chat about some issue that occurred in the code, or perhaps code that's somehow related to the code in the screenshot, or… well, how am I supposed to even know? Upon seeing this code, I might think, “How is slug defined? Is slug being used to create the baseUrl? Why is the domain name hard-coded in that URL? What happens if an exception is thrown? What module is this code even in?”

I have to either very carefully type some of the code into a search box or (these days) get my coding agent to find the relevant module for me.

Why couldn't my colleague have just used copy & paste? I could have seen a bit more of the context, even if the same lines were selected, and I could copy-and-paste that text into my IDE's search function so much more easily.

In fact, why couldn't they just send me the file, or even a link to the file (since everybody and their dog use GitHub, anyway).

It gets worse. Sometimes, I'll get a screenshot of an error log. “Hey, Paul, the build is failing. Can you look at this?”

What were you building? What line did it fail on? What even was the error?

Of course, if I do a full rebuild of everything on my workstation, it'll succeed.

It would have been SO easy to just copy all of the error log, or even dump the log into a file, and just send me that.

Please, don't take screenshots of text unless it's to demonstrate a cosmetic issue related to the display of the text, or there is truly something relevant about the content of the screenshot that would be lost in a purely textual context.