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Every fkn 3 to 4 days, some random dev shows up in my office really really fkn confused and frustrated about something he doesn't understand - because I have a dark secret.

Sometime, in cold lonely nights, when no one is watching, I write my documentation before the actual code.

Somehow, sometimes documentation without code attached to it makes it to production.

Today someone yelled at me for wasting his time because he wasted 3 hours trying to find the code the documentation belongs to - and demented I stop the practice from now on.

Agh.

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  • 2
    grim story 😧
  • 22
    Welcome!

    +1 for being the source of an original problem.
  • 39
    I'd prefer documentation without code over code without documentation anytime.
  • 1
    Yelled at you? Can't he just email you for path? 🤔
  • 5
    @gitpush
    The company policy supports having the option to get to any specific person responsible for a piece of code directly.
    it usually doesn't happen because people understand the importance of work flow, but when you need to understand something deeply or yell at someone that's useful.
    I kinda like it thoe hehe.
  • 2
    @Novacane like the fact people at your company understand the importance of workflow, wish I had similar situation here 😞
  • 2
    @hawkes I'd usually code the most clever way possible and procrastinate documentation, naturally.
  • 3
    @gitpush
    The CEO believes in cutting non-technical middle menegment as much as possible - the really good work environment in combination with relative freedom makes up for a "mhe" pay - guess you can't have everything.
    But I like it that way and make up for the money with side projects
  • 2
    @lwhken
    Most of my buddies are that way.
    I usually right pseudo to really understand the flow of the task, got that and the doc stuff from my software architect uncle :)
    You know what they say - it takes alot of people to make the world go around
  • 0
    @Novacane yup have a good work environment makes you able to make up with those side projects. Are you guys hiring :P
  • 1
    What about adding a clear note?
  • 4
    @SpectralKH
    Yea, that and //TODO:
    Usually work, but being human I sometimes forget - so technically that may be my fault.
    I'm just new here and wanted to rant abit cuz getting yelled at is never fun.
  • 7
    Pure DDD (documentation driven development)
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