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I Am Devloper
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Don't do it. Enjoy your weekend.
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Show me worse UX than this:
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1969: -what're you doing with that 2KB of RAM? -sending people to the moon 2017: -what're you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM? -running Slack
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"full-stack" now means you can: build front-ends write back-ends handle devops start a podcast curate a newsletter crack an egg with one hand animate a Pixar movie dunk
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nothing hurts quite like it
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Elon Musk: I'm putting people on Mars! Developers: Fantastic, more timezones to support.
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Remember, a few hours of trial and error can save you several minutes of looking at the README.
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*google an issue* * find relevant GitHub Issue* > Ah, 2017! This must've been fixed by now! *scroll through 4 pages* _h4t0n commented 7 days ago_ > any progress on this? GODDAMMIT.
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when you're reminded you wrote the world's biggest social network in PHP
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employee: I want growth in my role company: *installs ping pong table* employee: autonomy? company: *creates fully-stocked snack room* employee: fulfilment. company: *employs a live DJ in the office* employee: *quits* company: some people just aren't a good culture fit.
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How to start a business: 1. Find a problem 2. Create a solution for it 3. Profit Apple: 1. Create a problem 2. Sell an adapter for it 3. Profit
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Marie Kondo: What is this? Me: Its called Jira Marie: Does it Spark Joy Me: Absolutely not Marie: Thank it, and then discard it
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Always enjoy seeing someone trying to exit Vim for the first time.
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Lady Gaga
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHRHRGRGRGRRRGURBHJB EORWPSOJWPJORGWOIRGWSGODEWPGOHEPW09GJEDPOKSD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0924QU8T63095JRGHWPE09UJ0PWHRGW
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Therapist: And what do we do when we feel like this? Me: buy a domain name for the side project idea we've had for 15 seconds Therapist: No
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> we're looking for a junior developer with the experience of a senior developer for the salary of an intern
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interviewer: if you can explain what deadlocks are, I’ll hire you me: hire me, and I’ll explain deadlocks
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1/3 of US bandwidth is used by Netflix... the rest is used by `rm -rf node_modules && npm install`
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"can you hop onto a quick Zoom, it'd be easier to walk you through it"
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CDC: to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, self-isolate and stay indoors, avoiding other people Programmer: I’ve been preparing for this my whole life
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Linux is free, if you don’t value your time
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90% of programming is asking the right question so the answer shows up on page 1 of Google’s search results
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Me after sitting on mute for 59 minutes in a Zoom call to say “nope, nothing from me”
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Steps to Browsing a Website in 2018: 1. okay I'll accept cookies 2. yeah okay I'll disable my adblocker 3. sorry I don't want to sign up for your newsletter ... 15. *closes tab*
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interview: sort binary tree job: manually update csv files
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I’m a developer seeking a job in: ⚪️ a startup ⚪️ a corporate 🔘 the woods, making furniture with my hands and not speaking to anyone
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What do we say to writing documentation? Not today.
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programming progression year 0: I know nothing years 1-2: I know some things years 3-4: I don't know what I don't know years 4-4.5: I know *everything* years 4.5-10+: I know nothing
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client: what do you charge? freelancer: what’s your budget?
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Browsing the web in 2019... @bruised_blood
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The software development process i can’t fix this *crisis of confidence* *questions career* *questions life* oh it was a typo, cool
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the mixing of coding styles on this billboard is not ok
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The first rule of Vim club is you can't quit.
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being a programmer and watching someone "hack" a computer on a TV show is like being a nurse and watching someone in a movie take blood with a carrot.
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Honest
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MFW I create a symbolic link in Unix
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How I Hacked My Morning Routine: I wiped a production database and now I am 100% definitely awake
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people who use a VPN to browse the internet because of privacy concerns but then sit in a house full of Alexa devices
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I feel bad for kids who are currently learning to program by moving shapes and animating dogs as they're gonna be hit with the cold reality of real development which is copy/pasting linux commands and resolving git merge conflicts.
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"we're cancelling daily standup"
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Today we celebrate the day when Jeff Goldblum blind deployed untested code into a completely hostile environment and it ran first time 🇺🇸
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Biggest lie in tech? > We do agile.
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[crypto job interview] interviewer: do you actually know what blockchain is? me: no, do you? interviewer: no me: so am I hired? interviewer: I guess
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Every now and then, ping one of your competitor's websites using an IE6 VM. Keep them on their toes.
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Running `cd` without immediately running `ls` is like ordering a Big Mac without fries. I've not seen it done before.
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You either die a web developer, or live long enough to call yourself a software engineer.
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[teaching a programming class to 6 yo kids] > hey kids! welcome to your first "intro to programming" class! ready to learn? ok. today we're gonna learn how to write jira tickets, navigate office politics and how to avoid meetings! coding? nope, you'll rarely get the chance!
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I DON'T FIX PRINTERS
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Louie Mantia, Jr.
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What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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STOP making fun of different js frameworks Vue is FAST React is POPULAR Svelte is COOL Polymer is BEAUTIFUL Angular Aurelia is INTRIGUING
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*uploads CV* > thank you, now please input the same data broken up into these 36 form fields
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if I was dumbledore I would've hid the philosophers stone in jira's ui
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Debugging is like an onion. There are multiple layers to it, and the more you peel them back, the more likely you're going to start crying at inappropriate times.
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Being a mediocre developer for 10 years doesn't make you senior.
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shoutout to all the devops people currently on their parent's wifi trying to fix a database issue in production
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At every company, there’s always that one person who knows how the whole system works…and they left 4 months ago
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> lets keep staging as close to prod as we can me:
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an escape room, but it’s just endless git merge conflicts. good luck
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Programming is like a CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE GAME except every path leads to you lying in bed at 2am thinking about a bug you couldn’t fix that day.
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> It'll just be a quick fix Narrator: It wasn't.
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Just remember: companies would rather pay $25k to a recruiter to replace you than give you a $25k raise
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Me: Flat Earth Society people are just plain silly Also me: If I run my code again with zero changes, it'll maybe work
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Elon Musk names kids like I write Git commit messages.
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How long it takes the complete a task
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You say "VP of Engineering", I hear, "hasn't coded in 5 years".
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its true
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Everybody has a plan until they deploy to production.
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googling an issue and finding your own question on stack overflow from 6 months before
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𝚞𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎_𝚏𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚛_𝚌𝚘𝚙𝚢𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝_𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛()
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I've been using Vim for about 2 years now, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it.
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Dad Dad: Not asking for a programmer to help, are they? Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now Dad: Go and see if "rm -rf node_modules" helps
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Every developer: we need to implement an email alert system to notify us if production crashes Every developer after the first crash: how do we turn off these email alerts?
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“Once COVID is over” is starting to sound a lot like “once I’ve launched this side project”
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10 Things You’ll Find Shocking About Asynchronous Operations: 3. 2. 7. 4. 6. 1. 9. 10. 5. 8.
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when you visit a site you handed over 6 months ago and the client made some changes themselves
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It's only jQuery if it's from the jQueré region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling javascript
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┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| _ ┻┳| •.•) you can't effectively judge a programmer's technical ability in a 1hr coding interview ┳┻|⊂ノ ┻┳|
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If your code worked first time, you missed something. If it breaks, you missed something. You missed something.
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> Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. .....better just do a git pull anyway, to be sure.
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before bed: drink peppermint tea, run a bath, meditate, get into bed, read, fill out your gratitude journal, turn the lights out, roll over... brain: hi, that bug you couldn’t fix earlier was on L34 in helpers.js, bye ಠ_ಠ
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[recruiter] hey, I came across your GitHub profile and seeing as it didn’t 404, I think you’d be perfect for this role
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browser extension idea: find and replace “AI” with “some IF statements“ in articles you read online ie. VCs invest $1.2B in some IF statements
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manager: we need to design an admin system for a veterinary centre dev: ok, this is it, remember your training class Dog extends Animal {}
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a bug fix either takes 10 mins or 10 hours there is simply no inbetween
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Talking to a junior developer...
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Therapist: and what do we do when the tests fail in CI? Me: keep deleting test files until the build passes Therapist: no.
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<button class="nuclear" />
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Day 1: > will I be continuing with that whiteboard algorithm I was working on in the interview? > lol no fix that button
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Serverless is server less in the same way a beef burger is vegetarian because you didn't personally see the cow being killed.
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Designer's Figma file My HTML/CSS
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dear developers, if you're heading home for the holidays, leave your family with the most important gift you can give: set their default browser to Chrome, sincerely, this developer
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The World Health Organization is advising people to follow five simple steps to help prevent the spread of COVID-19: 🧼 1. Wash your hands 💪 2. Cough/sneeze into your elbow 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3. Don't touch your face 📏 4. rm -rf node_modules && npm i 🏡 5. Stay home if you feel sick
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Developers, if they: - approach you with pizza at 5.25pm That’s not your friend, that’s a PM bribing you to work late.
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I Am Devloper
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year 1: hoping and praying no-one asks you to do anything on the big scary command line year 5: if I have to leave the safe haven of my terminal to use some GUI nonsense, someone's gonna pay
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Not Wordle, just my GitHub contributions activity ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️
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interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years? me: look, I don't even have any plans for after this interview...
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10 lines of code = 10 issues. 500 lines of code = "looks fine." Code reviews.
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me explaining to marketing why a 5MB hero image might not be the best idea
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me: do you want it done quickly or do you want it done right? manager: yes
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when I think I'm a fairly decent programmer, and then try and align two buttons next to each other in CSS
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github being down is the closest thing you get to a snow day at school as an adult
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