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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow
Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

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What is it like to be a developer? (in gifs) πŸ—Ώ

Some of the situations may be familiar to you. Enjoy!

When I show my boss that I finally fixed a bug:

When the project manager enters the office:

When I prepare the code for release:

When I try to fix a bug at 3 am:

When my regular expression worked exactly as expected:

When my friend asked me to fix a Joomla site:

When I was told that the module I had been developing all week would never be used:

When code that I haven't tested works fine in the stable version of the project:

When the sellers reported that they had sold our software to a client:

The first time I apply new CSS:

When the sysadmin finally gave us root access:

When I ran my script for the first time after hours of development:

When I go on vacation while everyone else is trying to fix bugs:

When we released the beta and got notified about the first bug:

When the boss is looking for someone to urgently fix a complex bug:

When code that works on Friday no longer works on Monday:

When I asked a new colleague to continue working on the code:

When a bug was not noticed during the presentation of the product:

Share your favorite memes and situations in comments!

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Bad Request 400 β€’

Great Collection....

No Gifs from me, only Meme Pics some of them u probl. have already seen on Twitter, from where i've probl. stolen them :D

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so long

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lionel-rowe β€’

git commit --amend --no-edit && git push --force origin main

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Bad Request 400 β€’

Ooooohhh no please shoot me now 🀒

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lionel-rowe β€’

Confession time: I do this quite often for projects that I haven't officially released yet and that have no other contributors. Usually for minor changes to previous commits, but also sometimes when I'm just being lazy.

Its slightly-less-evil cousin git commit --amend --no-edit && git push --force <remote> <some-other-branch> is also really handy for making minor changes to still-unmerged PRs.

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bad_request400 profile image

Well to be fair when u're the only contributor in a repo then its whatever and/or its a hobby project, just to play around with some tech, i do this as well.

But i've seen ppl do this on real projects with multiple ppl where in the end a product or service should pop out. Then its a big 'no no' for me bc in the end you're just lying at that point in what should be your single source of truth.

The only thing i will always defend is squash commits when merging a branch. Because no one wants to see my commit history:

  • Fix Bug 123 (Ticket Number123)
  • Fix For Real this time
  • Fml index error
  • f*ck
  • f*ck2
  • im going home

So i squash it, that when you hand over the repo to a customer he has some professional commit history and not the timeline of my rage induced breakdown :D.

So, yeah you're not the only one to do this but like you i would never do this in a real repo :D.

so long

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Maria 🍦 Marshmallow β€’

It's hilarious😁

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Bad Request 400 β€’

Im partial to the "Wrong Database selected" Meme 😁

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Michael β€’

That needs an addendum (last backup 455 days ago)

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bad_request400 profile image

True Customer Sentence:

Oh yeah we have a backup. Hey β€žIn-house IT Guyβ€œ let’s restore that vm snapshot from the DB serverβ€œ.

Me: Oh no

  • 10 minutes or so passed *
  • DB Data Dir is on a SAN

Me: πŸ₯² I’m fine πŸ₯²

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RitterKnight β€’

The irony about the bricklaying one is that it actually takes way more skill to do this style of masonry β€œwrong” than to lay it normal. IIRC the style is called drunken brick.

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cubiclesocial β€’

When the sales team reports that they have sold our software to a client before the product is even ready for testing:

Sweaty Ted

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Bad Request 400 β€’

πŸ«‘πŸŽ–οΈ <-- For evey dev who found themselfs in that situation

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Byron Salty β€’

Well captured.

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RaΓ­ B. Toffoletto β€’

Perfect list 🀣🀣

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Muhib ur Rahman Bakar β€’

very nice :D

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Cesar Aguirre β€’

Pretty accurate I'd say. lol

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Jonah010101 β€’

Wow, Great Collection....
It's funny.

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Minhazur Rahman Ratul β€’

So funny and relevant. I can't stop laughing.

Some nuggets from me:

@developeratul

@developeratul

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flyingCrp β€’

I met JavaScript for the first time

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CodeCat1024 β€’

Too terrible hahaha.

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John Jacobusse β€’

Keeping everyone happy...
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