!rant
Something I needed without even knowing, but finally realized today:

alias ls='ls --group-directories-first'

(mac-fags will need to brew coreutils and alias to gls instead)

All credits to that random guy on superuser (stackexchange). Make directories great again! 😇

If github could go down every Friday, developers might have a life

Hi everybody (newbie here).

The most annoying thing about CEO's and bosses is theirs incapability to understand mere technical or even logical matter of topic discussed in important meetings. I found a perfect parody video, which describes how I feel when participating that kind of meeting.

https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg
(sorry if repost)

P.S. Nice community this.devRant
(been lurking few weeks)

I put an Easter egg into a product, that if you enter the string "final countdown" into the stock code search field, it plays a YouTube vid of Europe's "The Final Countdown", in a hidden div. It's an in-joke for a few people in the company.

A well meaning maintainer with no sense of humour or judgement takes over and goes on the warpath against any hardcoded strings. The secret code gets moved into a config file.

A third developer changes the deployment script so that it clears any configs that aren't explicitly set in the deployment settings.

So the secret code is now "".

Literally every PC in the stock buying department is now blaring out "The Final Countdown" at top volume.

...Except none of them have speakers, so it remains this way for over a year and two more changes of maintainer.

I just noticed this afternoon and quietly re-hardcoded the string. The buying dept.'s PCs will silently sing no more.

Dude! I have this amazing idea for a website! It's like a social network but for videos!
- uh like youtube?
No! Totally different because in this social network you could share the videos with your friends.
- so... like youtube
No man! Cause you could also rate and comment the videos!
- like youtube?
No! You're just not getting it man!
-...

Found a better way to stack cables!

You havent lived as a dev until you develop that nervous twitch of ctrl+s spamming.

Manager : Something is missing in the website
Me : What ?
Manager : That synergy between colours .
..
FML

Not sure if it has been here, but the height of SO:

Sales: We NEED to view the minutely data but showing 10 years of data at a time
Me: you do realise that would be like 2 days of data per pixel even on one of largest monitor resolutions
Sales: your a clever guy I'm sure you can work something out
Me: well I can consolidate the data so you ...
Sales: No we need to see the temperature for every minute

Refactoring in a nutshell

Let's build a house with no blueprint, no idea how it should look but have daily meetings about the bathroom... #Scrum