The best feeling is writing some software and then random strangers telling you how much they love it. So satisfying.

Changing the sprint scope.

Other developers.

FUCKING ORACLE

SQL Queries built up using string concatenation.

Death is too kind.

'So what we need is similar to what you've done but not in these 37 key ways'

My dad, who doesn't know shit about programming, but knows absolutely everything about perseverance and motivation.

These avatars are so cool! Great work @dfox and @trogus !!

I've got a mate at my current work. Most of what we do is insult each other, but there's a real respect there. We were both in similar positions in the company, where we were overworked, underpaid, undervalued and pretty unhappy. He was so helpful when it came to traversing the politics of the company, and how to work out what to do. Plus we get really drunk together all the time. I'm leaving my present company in a few weeks and I'll probably miss having him around the most.

'So can you like..' *toke*.. 'take down the government with a laptop?'

'Is the software production ready?'
'Yep. Sure...'

I changed the HTML of my school website to say 'MR. DAVIES SMELLS'. Having seen the ensuing havoc that I caused, I knew this was for me.

Great little find guys.

The 'fuck' command.

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

When your PM is drawing all over your nice architecture diagram..

Forgot I had an interview at 9am the next day so I got super drunk the night before. Let me tell you, it's very difficult to pull back from smelling like whiskey and having to down three red bulls before you go in to keep awake.

Every time I see a set of stickers arrive in a far off country (just saw Kenya!? What!?) it makes me really happy. Spread the angry developer nerd rage. Let it flow through you.

Time for a midnight deployment!

Hey Chris can you join this conference call where we will talk about hardware and pricing options and not bring up anything software related.

When your boss partners up a student with the one Dev in the office with the shortest fuse ever.

Thanks for the stickers @dfox and @trogus!

The guitar finally understands my pain.

I wrote a cellular automaton in university (elementary game of life). It was generating shapes but it just didn't work. It seemed like the shapes would degrade as they went until they caved into some mesh of pixels.

Turns out that when counting the number of neighbours around a cell, I was counting from 2 because of an earlier bug.

The really interesting thing about this bug though was that it made sense. There were too many people and the resources ran out, which meant the patterns that would normally survive were dying off early.

It's a bug, but not a bug.

EU Referendum results are in and it looks like Britain is leaving.

Scary times ahead! Good job I'm part of a global industry eh?

What if the long term goal of @trogus and @dfox is to create a developer army, hell bent on the destruction of project managers and clients everywhere (except the cool ones).

I mean I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Just wanted to... You know.... Raise some attention.

Where my musical devs at?

Flamenco guitarist over here. Declare yourselves fine gentlemen!

Cartoon idea is absolutely outstanding! Great stuff @dfox and @trogus (can never remember how to spell tims name so sorry if wrong)

Oh oh. Dude who use to sit next to me who didn't seem to be able to chew at a normal volume. It was so so so loud. 😷😷

I worked with a developer for months. He was senior to me; on more money than me and had way more experience. I spent at least 25% of my time explaining the most basic stuff to him. Things like 'no, that's not how a cache works', 'no, you shouldnt be doing string concatenation inside a loop', 'no you've completely written the wrong thing because you didn't listen'

When he left, he claimed to have finished off a feature for our application. We dove into it, rewrote it, made it more efficient, the code cleaner, the documentation more succinct and the logic more obvious. When I say we, I mean me and a student, and by me and a student, I mean the student with some very light prodding from me.

Friday and I've gone home to unwind from work..

By working on personal projects

Has anyone else had it where you get so used to saying 'no, this will never work in live as it is' that when it actually becomes pretty good, you struggle to say nice things about it?

Getting impatient for the next weekly rant....