The holidays are coming 🎄
And between making pierogi 🥟 and baking gingerbread cookies, I felt like writing a post — because honestly, how long can ...
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The daily grind of every developer, myself included! And if there are pierogies or gingerbread cookies… heaven can wait – so can testing and refactoring. My mouth is watering!
Exactly 😄 there are important things… and more important things 😀
And btw — fun linguistic fact: pierogi is actually plural in Polish. The singular form is pieróg 😄
learnt something new this Christmas, thanks 😆
Very good, because polski to najpiękniejszy język 🤣
Speaking of pierogi… The worst part is that I had just read that it was the plural of pieróg… but that didn’t stop me from making the mistake!
Honestly? I actually love that this Polish word is used abroad - even if it gets pluralized again 😄 It’s still way better than trying to invent some weird translation for it!
by the way, 1 hour in a developer's language is 2 days ( QA hasn't even tested it yet lmao )
Exactly 😂 and if it’s 3 days, it might as well take the whole sprint 😄
My scrum master always adds a multiplier on top of that - at least ×1.5 😅
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! That’s such a great way to explain it. Tiny percentages suddenly stop looking tiny when you’re dealing with massive scale. In big projects you really have to assume that every “edge case” will eventually become a very real, very frequent problem 😄
Add this to your follow up article on 7 truths about software engineering that nobody else believes, lols
Yeeeah, classics 😀 especially the “no plan survives contact with the customer” one.
And honestly, that’s probably one of the reasons AI won’t replace developers anytime soon 😄
Maybe that's just human nature? So many manufacturers think the same way, whether it's cars, kitchen appliances, scissors...
That’s a great point! 🙂 It really might just be human nature. And as psychology tells us, self-awareness is the first step toward change — so there’s still hope for us developers 😄
A good read this Christmas. Here I was, thinking it was just me but looks like it’s more of everyone’s 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 can’t be changed thing I wonder 😄
Glad it resonated! 😄 And yep, we’re all in the same boat. I think we’re slowly improving - awareness helps - but some of these things feel like they come bundled with being a developer 😂
Too real 😄 “I’ll refactor this later” and “it’s just an edge case” personally attacked me.
Also loved the reminder about creating actual tasks for refactors/tests — that tiny step really does change whether it ever happens.
Looking forward to part two 👀
Haha 😄 welcome to the club - I think we’ve 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!
I just read my entire programming life....
Haha 😄 seems like developers share some kind of collective unconscious - same struggles, same lies, same stories 😂
Hahaha 😆
Ill be thinking about pierogis all day now... :)
Haha 😄 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 “tired traveler” 😉
Challenge accepted! 😂
Thanks for sharing
Haha 😄 totally! It’s like developers are all plugged into one giant hive mind.
Same bugs, same “it works on my machine,” same late-night Stack Overflow rituals, same déjà vu every sprint 😂
Haha, 100% 😂 and on top of that, every team heroically tries to solve the very same problems on their own 😄
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Classics ;-)
Timeless ones 😄
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, that’s either peak procrastination… or the first step to becoming the next Steve Jobs 😂