Rest in hell IE8, 9 & 10

I remember when clients would ask for "validated" html when 9/10 of the biggest sites didn't even validate. It was like these people did a little internet research and some listicle somewhere told them the "5 things you MUST have in a web developer" and even though they didn't have one fucking clue what it meant, hell, they just HAD to have it. "But will it validate...?" If you can say that in a painfully whiny nasal voice you just took a step inside my head.

"Working with legacy code that hasn't been touched in 2 years is fun!!" said no one ever.

Everyone always says the previous developer was crap, sometimes you're right

A refactor a day keeps the doctor away!

99 problems but a conflict ain't one

I hate it when I don't have all the requirements or they are fuzzy and I'm asked to estimate the task/project.

Be clear, not clever.

Debugging a system error with a good team of fellow developers/devops people is fun.

We had an issue on Friday where we were getting a pretty cryptic error in our error reporting system. A couple of developers and I got together with a couple of devops people and we worked it out well as a team and figured out a pretty complex issue in a reasonable amount of time with everyone playing a solid role.

Nobody tried to steal the show and everyone listened to each other's ideas on what the problem might be. Through and through a great debugging session and made me think about bad ones and good ones I've had in the past.