Dear Gradle, Why So Stubborn?
Do I do something wrong?

Watching juniors try to set up a project and being greeted by cryptic stack traces like it's some kind of initiation ritual.

`Unsupported class file major version 61`
`invalid CEN header zip64 no access package`, ...

Java can compile code for older versions just fine.
It's literally designed for that.
Oh why, must Gradle behave like a bitter librarian who refuses to hand over a book unless I whisper the exact Dewey Decimal Code?
Every other Language will laugh again at java, seeing this.

💡 Why is Gradle bound to a java version? And if Gradle knows it needs Java 11… why doesn't it just do this for me?
Like using `/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11` in background?

🤖 Is there a clean way to force Gradle into submission without adding another tool like SDKMAN or jabba or YunaBraska/gradle-java-fix or whatever the trendy painkiller of the week is?

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Developers, when your work laptop disk fills up, what's the VERY LAST thing you'll delete? 🤔🗑️
Think carefully!

#DeveloperProblems

Customer: ‘It doesn’t work. Fix it!!’ 🔧💀
Developer: Ah yes, let me just consult my crystal ball… 🔮😤

Clear bug reports save lives (and sanity).

Art by @vincentdnl

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you now that feeling when filling a car with gas, trying to stop the numbers on a flat dollar amount?

that, but with free tiers of GCP #developerproblems

That moment when you inherited a pile of spaghetti code and you said you'd only refactor enough just to understand what was happening but now that you've reorganized a bit and started developing, you realize you're going to end up rewriting 75% of the app....  

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BOSIO'S RULE (unless someone else already claimed it): In every development project there will be at least 1 file intended for local development customization that has been committed to the repo, requiring you to remember not to commit your changes.

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Testing multi-threaded code ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVFgI_F4R7Y

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