When you have to fix and extend some legacy code and somehow nothing breaks

Advice that I give to interns/grads:

In uni/college, you're taught *how* to code something to achieve a goal, and 99% of the time the code will work and do the job in a lab.

But when building things for a real production environment, you learn the 100 ways how *not* to code, from seeing things break left right and centre - basically everything and anything can break your code, whether it is users, the OS, other people's code, legacy code, lag, concurrency, the alignment of the moon to your server...

True or not? ;)

When your boss asks you to debug some crappy legacy code and you need to bring in the heavy artillery

:^)
For real though, to each their own in the end.
I accept MacOS for development, but Apple hardware is just price gouging.

Do not disturb someone especially if they are in the zone.

Hint : earphones on, a ton of error logs on screen.

This made me chuckle 😂 but seriously, ask that girl out 😉

When you think the progress be has stopped moving...

Ps... It was still moving.

Never trust a commit message

npm install obscure-lib-only-I’m-familiar-with

git commit -am “adding job security”

Guessing endpoints. My favorite game.

!😓😓!

Sometimes I name my project "suicide" so that when I do a git commit I could say that I committed suicide.

That one dude that claimed to know it all but when asked any questions he didn't know shit.

I think we've all seen a dude like this.

Happiness is when you hear your co-workers praising you while you're not in their sight 😃😃

Started coding, Opens spotify, Back to code, Forgot to play a song..

When your 1 year old finds your devrant stress ball and decides to use it as a teether...

At least the face is in tact

C++ vs C

Figuring out the perfect algorithm for your code

cracking the job interview

Corgi Stylesheets

The struggle is real

Yeah! That's right.

Many of you who have a Windows computer may be familiar with robocopy, xcopy, or move.
These functions? Programs? Whatever they may be, were interesting to me because they were the first things that got me really into batch scripting in the first place.

What was really interesting to me was how I could run multiples of these scripts at a time.

<storytime>
It was warm Spring day in the year of 2007, and my Science teacher at the time needed a way to get files from the school computer to the hard-drive faster. The amount of time that the computer was suggesting was 2 hours. Far too long for her. I told her I’d build her something that could work faster than that. And so started the program would take up more of my time than the AI I had created back in 2009.
</storytime>

This program would scan the entirety of the computer's file system, and create an xcopy batch file for each of these directories. After parsing these files, it would then run all the batch files at once. Multithreading as it were? Looking back on it, the throughput probably wasn't any better than the default copying program windows already had, but the amount of time that it took was less. Instead of 2 hours to finish the task it took 45 minutes. My thought for justifying this program was that; instead of giving one man to do paperwork split the paperwork among many men. So, while a large file is being copied, many smaller files could be copied during that time.

After that day I really couldn't keep my hands off this program. As my knowledge of programming increased, so did my likelihood of editing a piece of the code in this program.

The surmountable amount of updates that this program has gone through is amazing. At version 6.25 it now sits as a standalone batch file. It used to consist of 6 files and however many xcopy batch files that it created for the file migration, now it's just 1 file and dirt simple to run, (well front-end, anyways, the back-end is a masterpiece of weirdness, honestly) it automates adding all the necessary directories and files. Oh, and the name is Latin for Imitate, figured it's a reasonable name for a copying program.

I was 14, so my creativity lacked in the naming department >_<

that moment of suspense when you wait for your Code to successfully compile 🙏

I was one of the early adapters to devrant. And I qualified for my free stickers ages ago. But thanks to the useless South African postal service, I still havent received my stickers over a month down the line :( I have so much sadness in me because I NEED these stickers!

When I see the best rants of the week I give a ++ to those that are near the 150++ só they can have a DevRant stress ball

;;;;;;;;;;;

When your first Rant gets 15 ++ and you know the stickers are basically on the way 😀

Monday morning blues...