The holidays are coming š
And between making pierogi š„ and baking gingerbread cookies, I felt like writing a post ā because honestly, how long can ...
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The daily grind of every developer, myself included! And if there are pierogies or gingerbread cookiesā¦ heaven can wait ā so can testing and refactoring. My mouth is watering!
Exactly š there are important thingsā¦ and more important things š
And btw ā fun linguistic fact: pierogi is actually plural in Polish. The singular form is pierĆ³g š
Speaking of pierogiā¦ The worst part is that I had just read that it was the plural of pierĆ³gā¦ but that didnāt stop me from making the mistake!
Honestly? I actually love that this Polish word is used abroad - even if it gets pluralized again š Itās still way better than trying to invent some weird translation for it!
learnt something new this Christmas, thanks š
Very good, because polski to najpiÄkniejszy jÄzyk š¤£
by the way, 1 hour in a developer's language is 2 days ( QA hasn't even tested it yet lmao )
Exactly š and if itās 3 days, it might as well take the whole sprint š
My scrum master always adds a multiplier on top of that - at least Ć1.5 š
Add this to your follow up article on 7 truths about software engineering that nobody else believes, lols
Yeeeah, classics š especially the āno plan survives contact with the customerā one.
And honestly, thatās probably one of the reasons AI wonāt replace developers anytime soon š
I love the one about edge cases. I told my developers to put a percentage on it. Out of every 100 transactions how many will exhibit this behaviour. They low balled with something like 0.01%. Fair enough, a tenth of 1 percent. Now how many transactions do we process an hour? What does that look like now in terms of frequency? What is 0.01% of a million transactions a day? How many support tickets is that?
Exactly! Thatās such a great way to explain it. Tiny percentages suddenly stop looking tiny when youāre dealing with massive scale. In big projects you really have to assume that every āedge caseā will eventually become a very real, very frequent problem š
Maybe that's just human nature? So many manufacturers think the same way, whether it's cars, kitchen appliances, scissors...
Thatās a great point! š It really might just be human nature. And as psychology tells us, self-awareness is the first step toward change ā so thereās still hope for us developers š
A good read this Christmas. Here I was, thinking it was just me but looks like itās more of everyoneās going through the same.
Now that we know we all facing the same problem did anyone try or remotely find any success in mitigating these problems or is this a canāt be changed thing I wonder š
Glad it resonated! š And yep, weāre all in the same boat. I think weāre slowly improving - awareness helps - but some of these things feel like they come bundled with being a developer š
I just read my entire programming life....
Haha š seems like developers share some kind of collective unconscious - same struggles, same lies, same stories š
Hahaha š
Too real š āIāll refactor this laterā and āitās just an edge caseā personally attacked me.
Also loved the reminder about creating actual tasks for refactors/tests ā that tiny step really does change whether it ever happens.
Looking forward to part two š
Haha š welcome to the club - I think weāve all been personally attacked by at least one item on that list.
And yes, that tiny step of creating a task really does some psychological magic.
Part two is definitely coming!
Haha š totally! Itās like developers are all plugged into one giant hive mind.
Same bugs, same āit works on my machine,ā same late-night Stack Overflow rituals, same dĆ©jĆ vu every sprint š
Haha, 100% š and on top of that, every team heroically tries to solve the very same problems on their own š
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Ill be thinking about pierogis all day now... :)
Haha š then you should definitely visit Poland - pierogi everywhere!
And fun fact: during our holiday dinner, we even leave an extra place at the table for a ātired travelerā š
Challenge accepted! š
Thanks for sharing
Classics ;-)
Timeless ones š
my most issue is "how will I market this once m done",
yet every time I finish I want to add extra feature just to avoid how to market it
Haha, thatās either peak procrastinationā¦ or the first step to becoming the next Steve Jobs š