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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there a generator for these?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

There are a few from a search, this one came up with a GitHub repo. https://arthurbeaulieu.github.io/ORlyGenerator/

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just use the paint, internet person

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 1 week ago

Bu-but we're programmers

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you have more of these memes? I'd like to see more.

[–] kora@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Here's some more.

Shared this with my team just recently. Guess there is a lot more of these brilliant edits.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nice! Thanks. :3

Is there a bigger resolution btw?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From the last time this came up I got most of them from this guys collection.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11139658

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Nice collection. Thanks! :)

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for this.

[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, me too! But, only if I have the autonomy to improve things where I can. Otherwise, I just find it demotivating

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

I enjoy this too, but it’s kind of rough when you’ve inverted control, teased apart unnecessary coupling, updated dependencies and backed everything with unit and other tests, but then your colleagues are too scared to code review it.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Feeling of deleting lines > Feeling of adding lines

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I find that working on production code with well defined use cases and requirements to be the most satisfying, and working on new proof of concept / demos / marketing tools to be the least satisfying.

So on balance, more of the legacy projects I've worked on have fit those criteria than the new builds, but the couple of new builds that had well defined use cases, and no legacy code to deal with were the absolute best.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

also, your own code after you've spent time away from it.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

That is the strangest thing, going back into a program and thinking "what the hell was that guy thinking?" and then realizing it was me.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What fucking ass for brains engineer wrote this dogshit code?!?!?! I'm gonna scroll back to the header find out who wrote and give a piece of my mind to... myself x.x

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

git blame giveth and git blame taketh

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

The time varies but starts at about 1 day for me…