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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 04:45:58 JST nixCraft 🐧

   sounds correct to me. 😂

   • Christer (christerk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 04:53:57 JST Christer

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     @nixCraft

     « keep up coding, we can always fix it later. »

   • Charlie (boscozebra@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:06:05 JST Charlie

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     @nixCraft yeah, I’m a generalists. I can code, but generally don’t, I can administer users, hardware, security, audit, interpret logs, run share point farms… that sort of stuff - to my relatives “I fix computers” and they always call me when their printer doesn’t work.

   • Linker3000 (linker3000@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 05:11:50 JST Linker3000

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     @nixCraft

     - Rewriting perfectly functional code in the hip-and-trendy language of the moment.

     - Breaking monolithic code into microservices so that the maintenance overhead moves from the core code itself to the ipc mechanism, while introducing ever-increasing opportunities to exercise your debug skills there.

     - Smiling weakly at greybeards volunteering that 'You could easily do all of this in Pascal'.

     - Reading published APIs and then spending ages figuring how they *actually* work.

   • MaybeMyMonkeys (maybemymonkeys@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 06:14:34 JST MaybeMyMonkeys

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     @nixCraft needing to bring your three year old with you on a late night call out and have them ask what does this do as you hear a click.

   • Liz (shifty176@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 06:18:39 JST Liz

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     @nixCraft ...is writing a function that sends an email based on a conditional which (because you're tired) evaluates to while(1) {send email();}
     Testing said function, and realising within about half a second what you've done.
     Killing the test run and deleting the odd 5 or 6 thousand emails that have just landed in your test inbox...

   • Same84 (same84@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 06:23:11 JST Same84

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     @nixCraft

   • Q. Edwards (the_q@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 07:40:46 JST Q. Edwards

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     @nixCraft and also googling

   • enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 10:29:49 JST enoch_exe_inc

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     @nixCraft It’s also “staring endlessly at the screen for hours and hours on end trying and failing to fix that one bug”. The longer it takes, the more inane and obvious (in hindsight) the solution is.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 11:27:08 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     I've seriously played with the idea of having my headstone say

     "Works on my machine".

   • Brandon (veviser@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 11:28:27 JST Brandon

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     @nixCraft lgtm

   • lemgandi (lemgandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 23:53:24 JST lemgandi

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     @nixCraft Struggling desperately to understand and fix your client code when the server you don't control makes an arbitrary undocumented change to the API with no warning.