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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6002282

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

im convinced most developers spend more time working on making shit work, rather than actually writing code and bugfixing it.

edit: this was mostly a shitpost, and i was expecting some flack, but i got basically none. Can we have a real moment here. Are you guys doing ok? Who made you do this to yourselves?

ok, real talk over, we're going back to suffering now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Half the time it's trying to figure out where to apply the next piece of duct tape to keep the entire house of cards (and duct tape) from collapsing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] Buttons 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In times past they got shit done, and now we see that what they've done is shit and we're stuck maintaining it.

[–] szczuroarturo 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Thats just enterprise software for you. Something was made requiremnts changed, and then changed again and then ypu have duct tape on top of a duct tape with a duct tape holding those duct tapes and a touch of super glu here and there. Also ducttapes are microscopic in size but the sheer quantity of them is unimaginable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

this part is pretty much expected i think. But i'm starting to see it cropping up into the more meta aspects of programming now. For instance, apps being shipped with existing deprecated packages. Seems like it's also creeping a little further into the more UI aspects of it as well.