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Search - "documenting sucks"
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Documenting your code is like peeing. You'll rather just keep coding until you no longer have a choice 😂1
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Monday - delivered feature1. Manager demands starting to work on new feature2. I start working on feature2.
Thursday - in late evening manager provides feedback from testing feature1 for which internal testing starts Monday.
Friday. I start investigating. Everything is fucking broken. Backend contract broken from BE side, UI broken by another team member's PR from FE side. Missing configuration from FE side that was not documented anywhere.
I start working on issues from my side, inform relevant parties and coordinate that they would make fixes on their side (ofc after getting a lot of pushback trying them to force me to write workarounds to work with their broken implementations)
My manager during the day: what was the reason for us being blocked now?
Me: broken BE, broken FE by another team member, missing undocumented configs. Too late (and incomplete) testing feedback. Having to switch to feature2 priorities before finishing everything with feature1. Basically all things out of my scope.
My manager: so just to clarify we are blocked from internal testing because YOU missed this? Why it wasnt caught sooner?
Me: due to 5 same reasons that I listed before, I can list more but would prefer focusing on getting things working today
Manager: Ok, as WE discussed let's focus on getting things working and discuss about improving this processes in the future.
Seriously it fucking sucks working in this bank as a mobile developer.
We are responsible for basically everything.
From scoping out work according to business requirements, documenting stuff, to creating/maintaining BE contracts and constantly double triple checking everyone else's work across the chain.
Actual mobile implementation or proper testing is like the last priority in this case. And yet we are the ones that take all the blame if we fail to meet arbitrary deadline.
Fucking hell. Im gonna start documenting all decisions of this retarded manager, I'm not gonna allow him to throw me under the bus due to failures caused by his own shitty decisions10 -
Had an awesome time coding a tool for work over the weekend. Now I'm writing the documentation and wish I was dead :'(
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Hello friends 😊
I just need to get this of my chest
But at my school we currently have this project where we need to create a webapp eventually which is nice. BUT first we NEED to spend a whole semester documenting stuff! I mean some things are necessary I know that! But a whole semester ffs I'm studying to be programmer so I WANT TO CODE STUFF
Why is my school like this 😩16 -
When you document an entire infrastructure layout and your boss says, "ok.....let's analyze what you've done..."1
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Coolest project.... SharePoint sucks, so I wrote an app to extend it into something that is useful.
The app consists of:
- a custom SharePoint event receiver to maintain a custom retention setup
- a custom feature to enable users to tag documents as related to each other
- a custom search experience with custom views and previews
- a .Net windows service to sync the data into a SQL database
- a .Net MVC application to manage the reporting and notifications system
- a notifications system in .Net
- custom SharePoint approval workflow
- a PHP site that maintains a full backup of every document in the event that SharePoint goes down
I was the only developer on the entire project and while I asked for backup they never provided it. So if anything happens to me... And since I am a good dev, my code is self documenting and someone will need to telepathically link to me to find out the multiple places that all of this is running (like five different servers including both windows and Linux).
The whole thing, I have about 18 months invested into it ;) -
It sucks when you are unable to work on any new features in forever and mainly spend time updating the existing code base, doing visual designs & documenting the application.
Let me please work on a new feature that the clients will use instead of meaningless busy work2