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xcudThe Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy.
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@xcud And we don't give up cos?
'Cos when we started coding we just dove in and changed a lot of stuff - so nothing works now! 😂
Tony Perez@xcud haha.. that is great!
Phil Davis@xcud Beautiful.
R3cursion Rochelle@xcud “This should be a quick change/fix”. Famous last words
Ken Dove@xcud lol all I changed was……
BensGreenGamingAc@xcud We do these things, not because they are hard, but because the new hires get all the low hanging fruit and we get the ones that nobody can replicate.
mhd@xcud I always thought it's "We do these things not because they're hard, but because they automate the things that are easy"
Mirko Sciachero
Jon Vernon@xcud <feels seen>
Andy McGuire 🐕@xcud
how about -
I'm not entirely sure why I wrote that bit, but it works... I'm just not sure why it works - so I am leaving it alone....
how about -
I'm not entirely sure why I wrote that bit, but it works... I'm just not sure why it works - so I am leaving it alone....
ooqaarx@xcud story behind 99% of library implementations in github that all stop at the same part.
Matt Jordan@xcud I miss Pinboard!
Christopher Brown@xcud @mattcjordan ...and by doing them, we made them harder...
@xcud @mattcjordan Years ago I worked with a senior engineer who was famous for saying, at the beginning of *any* design effort, "Oh, it's easy, you just..." Reader: it was *never* that easy
Cam@xcud "I wouldn't have written you if I knew you were going to get all SIGSEGV about it"
Pyranose
John Thompson@xcud we automate only those tasks which take less time than building said automation
Sander van Kasteel@xcud I am in this Toot and I don't like it.jpg
Tim Newman@xcud ooooof I didn't think Mastodon allowed these sorts of brutal attacks. Smh
ty@xcud actual LOL.
Gooseus@xcud Here here!
Kara Shallenberg@xcud absolutly lol’ing
C_Mee_Go@xcud the problem is then we forgot about the KISS principle and tried to futureproof by over engineering’s everything
Chris Allison@xcud - this is where my people are. 😁
Oliver@xcud Pouring one out for myself over a foolishly optimistic take on a matter involving `position: sticky` and IntersectionObserver
Joe Gilvary@xcud Thank you! 🤣
Jesse Liberty@xcud Things take twice as long as you expect, even if you take into account that things take twice as long as you expect.
@jesseliberty Hofstadter's Law! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
Lacuna Doloris (compbiobryan)@xcud or perhaps because we thought they were going to make another task easier.
Ab5al0m@xcud Literally... I just need another 10 minutes... 12 hours later - I'm almost done...
Elio Campitelli@xcud Truer words!
Jerry
Andrew@xcud Ancillary: We have regrets.
Miguel Aguayo
paprikapink@xcud When I was a tech writer my first pass through any doc was to take out all the "you just"s and if anyone said "oh, you just" to me I'd stop em right there so we could unpack the 27 steps they were forgetting ha ha just kidding it was usually 127
peteo@xcud That moment when you think someone has seen your list of home projects...
WesMoodyKC@xcud lol. I feel this in my soul
Murf
Kimota94@xcud The Bad Management Corollary: we do these things not because they are easy, but because someone in management thought they were easy and has already committed us to a release date, feature set and skeleton crew of coders.
🏳️⚧️⛧ Fawn>Fun ⛧🏳️⚧️@xcud “the player character needs movement? This’ll be a piece of cake!” *7 hours later*
sergio_101 has moved!@xcud and the description of the library made it sound easy.
C64 Customs@xcud
For me it's more like "I'm doing this because I thought it will save me a lot of time while doing it manually" ;)
For me it's more like "I'm doing this because I thought it will save me a lot of time while doing it manually" ;)