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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Changing stuff and seeing what happens. If you change two things the universe will let the problem be fixed, because that leaves you uncertain which thing fixed the problem.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

The ol Heisenburg’s Uncertainty fix

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The guy who wrote this is gone

I've gotten about 1,000 alert emails in the last 8 hours because of this

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The trick is to be the guy who is gone

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Guys who are here hate this one trick!

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I retired about a year ago, so the left-most book on the middle row is about me.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That one is my aspiration too. Is retirement as great as it seems?

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I’m enjoying it a lot so far. I haven’t missed working at all.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

congrats wisened/enrichend early retirement one.

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[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago

blaming the user, it's not necessarily their fault, but gaslighting worked for Apple so why can't it work for me.

[–] funbreaker@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

I'm going through Rustlings so Trying Stuff Until it Works

[–] hiroyt@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago

Ain't nothing wrong with that.

[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

Forgetting how your own code works over here

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm definitely writing useless git commit messages

For work, I at least include the Jira ticket id

For personal stuff, it's sweeping features stuffed into one commit that barely describes what was changed

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago

"Fixed stuff"
...
"Fixed for real this time"

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What was the git flag to basically rewrite history again?

I've definitely been guilty of this, but if I can redo my changes in narrative form before I push I bet I won't have to.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

git rebase -i

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forcing myself to write in the format of Conventional Commits has helped me a lot to write better commit messages.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody going to admit to being the pigeon? Because that's me.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I'm sorta like the pigeon but more just a vague understanding of the last critical thing that was asked of me.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

It's probably going to be a kitten sort of day; I'm stress testing and trying to address the pain points (which so far is mostly on all the other services outside my code that can't keep up; not a bad place to be).

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 7 points 3 months ago

Mine is not in the list.
"Click here and there, because no documentation..."

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Customer facing, so I think I wrote the one with the cat..

[–] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just picked up the latest version of "Copying and Pasting". This edition discusses copying and pasting from various AIs. Looking forward to digging in

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago

The "Forgetting How Your Own Code Works" is real. I've looked at code, thought to myself "what fcking idiot wrote this garbage", only to see my own name next to it. It's a very humbling experience

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blaming the user. Always

^I'm^ ^the^ ^user^

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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Frog, dog, and kitten, over and over and over in completely arbitrary orderings.

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

All the purple ones

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's a weekday, but I'm not a pro, so either llama or hamster. Maybe sloth, we'll see where today's project goes.

Does anybody know if there's a standard method to do a 1-way broadcast from mobile wifi hardware? (Or Auracast, it looks like the same thing) It's for a sort of mesh network where links may change very rapidly, and so a handshake doesn't make sense.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Changing stuff and seeing what happens!

The best part is remembering every change to revert it after XY change does it right.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'm going for the Dr. Venkman combo: "Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!"

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are my usuals.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

i like the last one

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I spend a bunch of time in log reviews in my current role. “Googling the error message” image is literally hanging on my office wall.

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Writing Useless Git Commit Messages, no doubt

[–] WanakaTree@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

The best Git Commit message I've ever seen was for like 35 files and a few hundred lines and it just said "Please work"

Fuck, I would love to rewrite the front end.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 3 points 3 months ago

Works on my machine.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

I'm too seen here. Time to hide.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that an armadillo? Forgetting how my own code works is my forte.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I thought it was a coral but kinda looks like could be a face in the left. Still probably a coral

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Changing stuff and seeing what happens. Yeah, about sums up my "debugging".

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I'm the donkey today - but it's okay since I'm writing some automated tests over the incomprehensible thing I wrote on Tuesday.

[–] gressen@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Its occasional coding by night for me.

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