What is it like to be a developer? (in gifs) 🗿
Maria 🍦 Marshmallow

Maria 🍦 Marshmallow @mariamarsh

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What is it like to be a developer? (in gifs) 🗿

Publish Date: Feb 19 '23
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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:

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Comments 21 total

  • Byron Salty
    Byron SaltyFeb 19, 2023

    Well captured.

  • Raí B. Toffoletto
    Raí B. ToffolettoFeb 20, 2023

    Perfect list 🤣🤣

  • Muhib ur Rahman Bakar
    Muhib ur Rahman Bakar Feb 20, 2023

    very nice :D

  • Bad Request 400
    Bad Request 400Feb 20, 2023

    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

    • Maria 🍦 Marshmallow
      Maria 🍦 MarshmallowFeb 20, 2023

      It's hilarious😁

      • Bad Request 400
        Bad Request 400Feb 20, 2023

        Im partial to the "Wrong Database selected" Meme 😁

        • Michael
          MichaelFeb 20, 2023

          That needs an addendum (last backup 455 days ago)

          • Bad Request 400
            Bad Request 400Feb 21, 2023

            True Customer Sentence:

            Oh yeah we have a backup. Hey „In-house IT Guy“ let’s restore that vm snapshot from the DB server“.

            Me: Oh no

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

            Me: 🥲 I’m fine 🥲

    • lionel-rowe
      lionel-roweFeb 21, 2023

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

      • Bad Request 400
        Bad Request 400Feb 21, 2023

        Ooooohhh no please shoot me now 🤢

        • lionel-rowe
          lionel-roweFeb 21, 2023

          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.

          • Bad Request 400
            Bad Request 400Feb 21, 2023

            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

    • RitterKnight
      RitterKnightFeb 23, 2023

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

  • Cesar Aguirre
    Cesar AguirreFeb 20, 2023

    Pretty accurate I'd say. lol

  • Jonah010101
    Jonah010101Feb 21, 2023

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

  • cubiclesocial
    cubiclesocialFeb 21, 2023

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

    Sweaty Ted

    • Bad Request 400
      Bad Request 400Feb 22, 2023

      🫡🎖️ <-- For evey dev who found themselfs in that situation

  • flyingCrp
    flyingCrpFeb 23, 2023

    I met JavaScript for the first time

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  • John Jacobusse
    John JacobusseFeb 23, 2023

    Keeping everyone happy...
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  • Minhazur Rahman Ratul
    Minhazur Rahman RatulFeb 24, 2023

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

    Some nuggets from me:

    @developeratul

    @developeratul

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