Clever is just another way of saying that no one else will understand how the code works.

Everyone has something to learn and teach. Start up a blog, submit to conference proposals, etc. If you're learning it then someone else has to learn it in the future, so make it easier for them.

You do not own your companies code. Of you hate working at your job, don't let the feeling of responsibility for the codebase keep you there. I keep learning that lesson.

"Senior Engineer/Dev/etc." is just the title for the guy who's learned from making the most mistakes.

I pray that no one ever has to look at the commit message on my solo projects.

Let's see:

No archival of data on a database server with over 5000 high profile customers using no encryption whatsoever with telnet open on LAN, every user on the same account in the office using the companies name as the password... But hey there are security cameras!

I was talking to someone recently who organizes a conference and told me that some people complained that the speaker list wasn't diverse enough because he had only 2 women and no racial minorities. Apparently the numerous Asian (Indian and Oriental don't count), nor the the organizer who is in a minority. Only African (specifically black) counts a d's minority nowadays. We now have a world with I finite gender identities and only 2 races. 😰

Oh my word, shut up everyone about the ESC key. In interface design do you keep something around that 1% of your user base uses, or do you make something better? It's not even gone. It's on the touch bar for fricks sake.

And while we're talking about it, stop calling Apple so innovative. Innovation at Apple died with Steve Jobs. "We developed this awesome new iPad Pro!" it's just a bigger iPad with the same stupid limitations of all iPads. If you want a real portable work tablet, go buy a Surface. "We added a touch bar to the MacBook Pro!" some manufacturers of Windows laptops have had that thing for years!

😰

Go and Ruby developers start debating tabs vs spaces.

Anytime I have to switch from Atom of Vim to Xcode.

Upgrading the framework.

Pair programming to refactor someone else's code.

Save method returns true. No validations errors. Everything looks good, except that a boolean field that controls the record has been set to false from true...even though it wasn't in the objects changeset!