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> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-10-15
> 7 posts returned ▋
Another week, another observability platform launched to help you debug the tools you bought to help you debug the other tools. At this rate the pipeline won't go green until it's monitoring itself monitoring itself.
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[01] The only person who ever reads your pull request description is you, three months later, trying to work out why you did any of it. |
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[02] 1998:
-build it, ship it, done
2024:
-lint it, test it, scan it, approve it, merge it, deploy it, watch it fail, roll it back, deploy it again |
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[03] if I was Sauron I would've hidden the one ring in Jenkins, behind a pipeline that only goes green if you rerun it three times and don't look at it funny |
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[04] things the technical interview actually tests:
can you invert a binary tree under pressure
can you narrate your thinking while panicking
can you pretend the whiteboard isn't slippery
can you accept the lowball without your face moving |
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[05] Manager: we're fully remote now, work from anywhere.
Me: great, moving to a beach.
Manager: anywhere with your laptop on and camera on between 9 and 6.
Me: so my kitchen.
Manager: so your kitchen. |
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[06] The customer is always right, until the customer opens a ticket explaining exactly how the feature should work, at which point they are never right again. |
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[07] I click 'I've read the breaking changes' the same way I click the cookie banner. Eyes closed, soul elsewhere, already regretting it by Tuesday. |
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Same week, earlier years. No feed is going to show you these again.
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16 OCTOBER 2014 Oh it’s ok, they’ve put ads on the wall.
That sounds sustainable. |
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14 OCTOBER 2014 You people'll RT anything... |
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12 OCTOBER 2022 once we solve the “chicken and egg” question, we can solve the recursive interview problem of “what salary are you looking for?”, “well, what salary are you offering?”, “well, what salary are you looking for?”
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