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Jeff Atwood
The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉
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Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023

I was thinking of this when revisiting a particular blog post: https://blog.codinghorror.com/doing-terrible-things-to-your-code/

or as Steve Yegge once said, "shit's easy syndrome."

Doing Terrible Things To Your Code

In 1992, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. In my defense, I had just graduated from college, this was pre-Internet, and I lived in Boulder, Colorado working in small business jobs where I was lucky to even hear about other programmers much less meet them. I

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Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
In my defense, I thought this would be easier.
Show threadBillAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror Wherein I am quoted. My one, singular claim to fame, that tweet.
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
@Sempf it's a great fucking tweet! 🎉
Show threadBillAug 29, 2023

@codinghorror I copied it here, somewhere.

Oh, here it is:

https://infosec.exchange/@Sempf/109373694338815636

Bill (@[email protected])

QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv.

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Show threadArmin HanischAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror I regularly refer people to your blog post, lots of them teachers who are lecturing kids. Just to show them that „coding“ or „informatics“ at school has only a very small intersection with software development.
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 29, 2023
@Linkshaender 🙇
Show threadBernd HerdAug 29, 2023
@Linkshaender @codinghorror I use to think: If this would be easy, they wouldn't need me to do it...
Show threadKiwicmcAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror the first professional programmer I met ( as part of a joint industry final year university project) taught me that taking amphetamines to code through the night and marijuana to take the edge off would meet a project deadline but at the end produce shitty code…
Show threadKiwicmcAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror QA people however have been uniformly awesome. From the QA director who faced down the VP of engineering to prevent a bad release, to Sinead who psyched up all the programmers to test throughly so “they wouldn’t let her down”.. I always tell my staff, love your QA because they’ll stop you looking like an idiot at some point
Show threadRobin WardAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror one of my fave tweets of all time.
Show threadStefan ReinholdAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror Hell, yeah!
Just like the method that I came up with in my PhD thesis. After my first paper I thought "yeah, easy, this can be implemented in 3 months at the most"... 3 years later it's finally working... somewhat…
Show thread🦠Toxic Flange (Gurjeet)🔬⚱️🌚Aug 29, 2023
@codinghorror saw this while back :)
Show threadGillinger has movedAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror I always liked "Computers are never wrong, only those who program them."
Show threadIza MarfisiAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror love this 😂 so true.
Show threadJeroen BaertAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror Lovely
Show threadTodd KnarrAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror We do these things not because they are easy, but because the executives think they'll be easy.
Show threadStevens R MillerAug 29, 2023

@codinghorror

I would buy one of those. Maybe more than one.

Show threadJoshua HallerAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror 100%
Show threadparkrAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror waaant!
Show threadrhempelAug 29, 2023

@codinghorror - woah, serious respect for having it bronzed!

I really regularly pull this out when anyone asks how hard would it be to do X ... or when someone implies I'm being negative when I say that something is harder or riskier han everyone else thinks it is 🙂

Show threadReallyCanadianFlyAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror
I will be stealing this wisdom of course. 😜
Show threadStay PrivateAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror So true. Might be one of the best coding tweets ever.
Show threadGordon P. HemsleyAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror (and it doesn't just apply to programming)
Show threadPamela Keetch Aug 29, 2023
@codinghorror LOL
Show threadComputeforloot Aug 29, 2023
@codinghorror 😂 JFK
Show threadwenestvedtAug 29, 2023
@codinghorror I am not getting a tattoo, but if I got a tattoo this line would be in the running.
Show threadPork SodaAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror “This codebase is a mess! Surely it must be easier in the long run to restructure it all into well-encapsulated components, rather than continue glomming more garbage onto it” - Me, two months ago. 😭
Show threadGeoffreyWinnAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror Ha ha. Funny!
Show threadChuck Taggart, Private EyeAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror Wonderful. Alas, I am unable to hear it in my head without it being in John F. Kennedy‘s voice.
Show threadLance (Ranger Bob) TaylorAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror Click all squares. #GoogleCapture #100DaysOfCode #EASY #CODE
Show threadLouDAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror
Every programmer: let me do/fix this little thing first before I start on the rest so it will be easier ~ 4 hours later...
Show threaddennisaurusAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror
Show threadmʌp ᯅ Aug 30, 2023
@codinghorror Love the Credo, but all I see when I now look at this image is this:
Show threadAllen BrunsonAug 30, 2023
@map @codinghorror yeah, i wondered if anybody was going to bring this up. maciej is a twitter blue subscriber and a musk apologist. anyone who doesn't agree with him on this topic is labeled "the fun police." i am never again taking him seriously.
Show threadBenjamin Dumke-von der EheAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror I see your Maciej Cegłowski and raise you one @kevinmontrose
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 30, 2023
@balpha @kevinmontrose seems excessively optimistic to me though
Show threadJason PunyonAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror @balpha @kevinmontrose that's always been Monty's problem
Show threadBenjamin Dumke-von der EheAug 30, 2023
@JasonPunyon @codinghorror @kevinmontrose Indeed.
Show threadKevin MontroseAug 30, 2023
@JasonPunyon @codinghorror @balpha that's me, just a constant ball of sunshine.
Show threadJason PunyonAug 30, 2023
@kevinmontrose @codinghorror @balpha can't even count how many times i had to bring you down from your rainbow
Show threadmosherAug 30, 2023
@codinghorror
Former employment inspired me with a programmer's adage:
Never measure, cut forever.
Show threadhave_postsAug 31, 2023
@codinghorror It's too bad that he outed himself as a TERF apologist though.
Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 31, 2023
@have_posts I was not aware of this at all!
Show threadSalamandarAug 31, 2023
@codinghorror but because POs and managers thought they were easy and relevant.
Show threadGallenSep 1, 2023
@codinghorror
Not programmer but this happens when I attempt programming lol.