I love refactoring :) just finished going through implementing accrued knowledge from the last 6 months into all my client side code and just doing that opened all kinds of doors for new features and niceties.

When you miss a comma 😝

A client wants to make a Pokemon GO type of game.. In two months.. (before the hype ended, they said)

I'm creating a website and I'm thinking: Wow, I use html, css, javacript and python, I'm awesome! Then I see what other people know: shit, I'm not awesome...
Programmer: the more you know, the more modest you become...

So saw some new cool technology/library (vue 2.0) and suddenly I feel like my codes are rubbish and outdated. major urge to rewrite months worth of codes. Is this self-suicidal mindset normal? please share.

Pretty much

This question must be from my PM :|

Create a folder on your desktop or use any 3rd party cloud service; when you've an idea and sooner or later realize that it's stupid. Don't just discard it, instead, put it in the ideas recycle folder. After a while, browse your ideas recycle folder. When going through all of them, I'm sure you'll come up with a new and better version of all those ideas.

Not sure why I still call my smartphone a phone at all. I rarely talk on it. It's a microcomputer with a phone app. I'm really surprised my toddler even knows to put it up to his head and pretend talk.

I got my first freelance Web Developer job!!! I was beginning to think it would never happen!

What PMs think we do.

Choosing Java because it works on all platforms, is THE worst reason

Once you've been writing code for so long, being excited writing code can go away. I still find that I get the rush when working with a new language or technology. It feels good to be a beginner again 🙂

wheiii got my new shirt :P

When left hand feels itchy because you may have copied something a bit ago and never pasted it, but now you don't know what or why

Well played Google, well played...

People are posting their setups so I thought I'd post this.

It's a 2012 MacBook Pro, 13 inch. I put 16GB ram and some solid state in there just so it gets the job done.

When I was a freshman in high school, my dad saw something in me that he believed in (and I didn't). He decided to put his money where his heart was. He told me that he would go out and buy me a computer, and I wouldn't have to pay him back, if I would work hard at programming to pay for my own college.

His investment payed off. I just graduated high school and started a job last week that will get me through college debt-free through the gap year that I'm taking. This machine's getting a little old, but it means a lot to me. It reminds me that my dad believed in me even when I didn't. 🖖🏼

That's a tough career choice decision to make 😝

-$ gulp test

*30 seconds later*

SUCCESS

[oh wait, for got something... Typety type... Fixed. I don't need to rerun gulp test, right?]

-$ git push

*email from CircleCI: BUILD FAILED*

😊🔫

In full knowledge I'll never get an 100 1+ rant, I've made my own devRant stressball

Can't believe devRant is made by a single developer and a designer. BRAVO YOU TWO👏👏

When you fix a bug three attempts ago but didn't notice because the result was cached.

When you change 200 lines of code all over the place in a class and then realize that you forgot to pull 17 commits from origin 😖

True story

When initially you are told to just quickly create a POC,
So you do without creating a proper architecture, then they tell you to add these new features for the time being, then they keep adding random more new features and eventually your code becomesa complete mess :|

Non developer boss gets excited and praises your talent in writing a simple gui app. Gets angry when you refuse to write an algorithm to semantically infer the topic of discussion from a given text.

Life of a software engineer.

When "rm -Rf node_modules ; npm install " fixes things more often than it should. It's almost like "have you tried rebooting?"

Anyone else suffer from this.

Have a brilliant idea, start computer, open you IDE, write a few lines of code as proof of concept and then just loose interests coz it's no longer a challenge !

when you really must go to the bathroom but don't want to leave your code as you are in the zone....