The more I learn about my language the less I think it matters. Maybe in embedded C you can’t just leave everything to the compiler though.

Real developer’s commit messages are all “Oops”.

They’ll never top Windows 95 to be honest.

Well yeah, it’d be like if an advertising copy writer said their job was “English”.

How is software not a subset of IT?

Where happy teams go to die.

Contrast is Satan to designers, because being able to distinguish the zones of a UI messes with their perfect colour blocking.

Because we’re old bastards who remember before React.

Based LOGO programmer.

No we don’t.

“Atleast”?

Correct.

Now it’s possible to browse hundreds of movies you don’t watch to watch from the comfort of your sofa.

This, but with separate services for read and write operations and another for event handling.

Thirty percent of the time it works all of the time!

Generally when you go on holiday and do a detailed handover to another dev, you find the team spent the week fighting some crazy fire in prod or sudden shift in priorities from up the chain. Don’t think I’ve ever had them actually complete my work.

I just realised why we do live coding interviews.

My credo on this kind of thing is never do something that will make your successor so mad that they find out where you live and post parts of your body to Interpol.

Document databases are just a big text field with additional index and metadata fields anyway.

Young people are hilariously messed-up. It’s like my generation decided we were finally going to challenge all the old taboos, and then the next generation demolished all the old gender assumptions, except now we have to be super judgmental about what everyone else is into.