With enough work anything is possible, but this is also
true with sufficiently lowered expectations.
If your software project is not a mess it only means its
not yet ripe, give it time.
Some people compare software development to legos, what
they don't often say is that the pieces are more often than
not of the wrong shape or colour for the task you're trying
to accomplish.
My boss and co-workers were so preoccupied with whether
they should that they never stopped to wonder if they
actually could.
There is a certain elegance to these solutions that never
would have been if not for piecemeal system growth. I can
appreciate their ludicrous complexity in the abstract.
Taking the compulsive compliance asserting course at work
is just me trying to click buttons in shortest amount of
time possible.
Employee recognition schemes are truely awful for anyone
not getting recognized, I would think they are on the whole
net negative.
Specs is always the worst part of any project and mocks and
stubs are the worst parts of any spec.
Effective project leaders are much like yetis, you can make
what you want out of that.
The two most popular adhesive tapes used at my work is red
tape and duct tape.
Some work is all about serving coffee and some work is all
about drinking coffee.
Working as a software developer is all about translation;
translating ideas into code, translating lousy ideas into
passable ones, translating hours at a desk into poor
posture and body aches.
Humour is my best and only tool to deal with the daily
stupidity of corporate procedures.
Tech movie of the year: hidden bug, crouching developer.
Feeling uneasy about those unfinished branches I know deep
down I will never revisit.
In reality much of our stack seem to evolve according to
the principle of survival of the hardest to deprecate.
My productivity is a delicate ecosystem sustained by
silence and coffee.
It is with disease I have to let you know that STI stands
for sexually transmittable inheritance and its not as
benign as it sounds.
Lets hope referring to our production environment as "the
patient" isn't adding to the karma tab.
Schrödingers technical debt, you don't have it unless you
go looking for it.
What do you call a really long lived pull request? A
branch-ausaurus!
Invite complexity into your life and soon you will be
paying rent to it!
It's the marketing department, it's always the damned
marketing department!
If there are any Gods they are blissfully unaware of us,
much like my boss at work.
That one colleague that always agrees with everything you
say but end up doing the opposite every time.