"Gentoo is literally Cthulhu." - Me

Girl: we need to talk

Me: OK

Girl: you seem to have more time for your computer than me. I want to know how important I am to you.

Me: You are the number 1 in my life.

Girl: *smiles and hugs me*

Me: (thinking)...Just that I start counting from 0

"Everyone Can Code!!" - but not everyone should!

Best part of being a dev: the thrill of watching the project slowly come together

I love all operating systems.

PM finds my prized stress ball and draws a face on it. When asked why she said "it looked depressed".

THATS THE LOGO YOU DUMB BITCH. PLEASE DON'T TOUCH MY SHIT

On the bright side... Good thing I have this stress ball to relieve my anger 😒

Finish programming assignment.

Jump right into 10 page paper with auto correct/spell/grammar check turned off (technical paper, office tries to correct issues that aren't issues).

Finish paper, turn checks back on.

Realize ended all sentences with semicolons.

FML.

Found this today.

It's in production!

If I'm bored enough to post a rant during a job interview, the job may not be for me

I like my windows phone I got from work. It gives me no reason to even look at it when I'm not working.

Being able to create almost anything you could think of. But you don't because you get enough of that shit at work...

The constant back and forth between imposter syndrome and God complex

"Pull the lever cronk

...

WROOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG LEVVVVVVEEEERRRRRRRR"

*some time later*

"Why do we even have that lever"

^^^ my code be like

Thanks @dfox for adding the double tap to upvote feature, I mean, bug. You're a saint

It has been a slow day at the office

I just moved my personal projects over to Jira... since I'm my own PM.. does that mean I hate myself?

The best parts of being a developer:

1. Full Internet access and admin rights.
2. It's nearly impossible for someone to tell if you are working or just zoning out.
3. We have the best online communities... because we make all of them.

Best part:

I basically get payed to solve puzzles!

Realizing how far you have come from a simple 'hello world' on a blank screen.

best part of being a dev ?

you know why electronic voting shouldn't be a thing

Not only in my work, but in my life.

My biggest inspiration is the popcorn seller that patiently stays outside the subway exit, standing, every fucking day, from 4-5pm until 0-2am.

He stays until after the subway closes, and only leaves after everyone waiting for their Uber or their ride do.

In the rainiest day of the year, he was there.
In the coldest day of the year, he was there.
In the worst crisis of our country in the last decades, the region became temporarily infested by bandits and beggars. Sometimes I had to work overtime until 11:30pm and I had to be very cautious with all the robbers in the empty dark street. But guess who was there, sometimes calmly saying "get out, go work" to the bad elements bothering him?

I find it reallybfunny and refreshing when everyone is inside waiting for the rain to settle down, while he is standing in the middle of it. Or when I'm coming home really late, and he is still out there freezing cold.
There is no excuse for not doing your best. Life sucks sometimes, but there are no excuses. Just work hard, and laugh at the bad times.
Every time I saw him there, I thought "my day was hard, but I could've worked even harder". At the same time he made me feel better for having a better job, he inspired me not to bitch about any little things.

Then you might ask: "isn't he dumb to stay until 2am even though he is probably not getting any costumers after 11pm?" or "how can someone so unsuccessful be so inspiring?"

Well, I don't know. He just is.
Do almighty, genious people like Steve Jobs inspire me at work? Of course. More than this man? Certainly not.

I am roughly 12 hours away from a deadline that seemed pretty impossible.
I finally got everything to work, it seems I'm actually going to make it.
After so many hours of frustration, despair and walking in circles, it is finally fun again :)

"How long it takes to complete a task"
A slightly exaggerated illustration of why I enjoy coding alone ^^

Decided to start writing an operating system from scratch with a friend for the absolute hell of it. I'm excited, but also terrified.

Advanced OS Design midterm in one hour. Pray for me.

7, 8....

:( ...

I wonder if there are employers here who read some of the rants and say, "oh wow, we shouldn't treat our developers this way, we should change."

Heh, yeah right.

"I need to 'hashtag include' stdio dot h, right?"

- my ex-roommate

My biggest influencer? My Web Dev schools psychologist. Always scheduling breaks in our day.
He continuously reminded us it's a positive thing to walk away from the code and change up the brain patterns.