It is easy to believe something is over-engineered as a junior. You open a solution and get slapped in the face with a wet fish of many classes, with strange names, doing very little, with everything coming together in ways you don't understand.

My advice is to learn about design patterns, clean code, clean architecture, and model driven design. Until that point I don't think you can make such a distinction. And indeed once knowledgeable of patterns and techniques as well as the domain, the same solution can look obvious, elegant and readable.

In a field where everyone is saying 'dont over-engineer', one must be able to tell if something is actually bad, or just uses techniques you don't recognise.

Telling your senior you think something is over done just because you don't understand it is not good. First learn techniques, understand the code, then form opinions that are at least relevant then.

From someone who committed that crime.

"Not everyone notices the flowers you plant, but everyone will notice the fire you start." - Unknown

Can you pass me the salt? 😃

The reason why developers should know the whole context of problem statement rather than just demanding requirements
Or
why the managers should set up the context of the problem rather than expecting magical solutions

I get a text from QA...

Tells me no bugs found...

Me thinks the apocalypse is tonight

FML. An overreaching supergenius "architect" and a database team:

A: "We have decided that apps should use mysql. Install a MySQL so we match cloud"
DBA: "we don't have an image or experience with MySQL. We have mssql and Oracle "
A: "ok, use mssql in data center and mysql in production cloud"
DBA: "that's... not going to work well"
A: "just do it!"

...

Me, reading this shit, sends email: "ignoring the fact that we have more than 500 queries in this application which will need to be checked and most likely rewritten, how are we supposed to test the mysql queries without production access?"
A: "just use mssql local and MySQL in cloud"
M: "... Just to make sure I understand, you want us to write queries for mssql, test them locally, and then write separate queries, with a separate SQL connection abstraction that deploys to production? Again, how are we going to test this?"
A: "no, use same queries, should be fine"
M: "they really won't, they're different dialects"
A: "do the needful, make work!"

If karma were a thing, this person would have long since exploded into a cloud of atomized blood.

My intern found this... I'm glad he knows it's the truth

Which server is fastest?

Honestly FUCK frontend, never again

Who knows!! 😂

inserting a usb be like...

Only ranting though 😂

Why do frontend developers eat lunch alone?

Because they don't know how to join tables

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Give that man some HUGE FUCKING COOKIES!

They live in stone ages!

Ohhhh 😂

I've really tried with DuckDuckGo, but any time I have to look something up quickly, I default to Google. Their search is just better.

In a military district.

I sometimes accept freelance jobs. Don't ask me how I found this one. (or how they found me)

On a production server

I sometimes correct people's PRs from under the shower or from the toilet, but my favorite place to code are in the dune forests (Netherlands).

Most unusual place would be operating room at the hospital though, getting my leg/foot bugfixed after a car accident. I asked the surgeon if it was OK if I brought my phone in, to distract myself, so I went through some code cleanup tasks.

Oh Bill, oh Bill

Dear Client,
Procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Thank you.

Today, I made someones day in 5 minutes by using my phone camera, a picture to pdf converter, and a wireless capable printer to take a sheet of music in a small book, supersize it, and print it so they could read it without squinting.

Sometimes I forget how awesome it is to have this technology on demand, and it takes someone who doesn't have it to realize just how cool it is.

Just foodie things :
repeat: {{ Keep code and have food }}

Burnout signs:
1) laying in bed all day
2) watching old natgeo documentaries
3) ordering a dildo for my loud ass neighbours

Failed!

Client side

Bug 🐛

Explained rubber duck debugging to my girlfriend and a week later she got me this little guy 🤓