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> iamdevloper --digest --week=2026-09-17
> 10 posts returned ▋
Another week where the roadmap says AI and the changelog says bug fixes, which feels about right.
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[01] The most dangerous phrase in software isn't 'quick fix', it's 'while I'm in here'. That's where the real damage happens. |
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[02] Nobody has ever read the documentation. They have read the Slack thread where someone explained it once, three years ago, to a different person. |
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[03] A ticket estimated at one day and a ticket estimated at one week take the same amount of time to actually finish: three weeks. |
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[04] Every incident retro produces the same action item: 'add more monitoring'. We now have more monitoring than product. |
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[05] What's the daftest reason you've personally caused a production outage? Extra points if it was a semicolon. |
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[06] Caching invalidation isn't hard because the logic is complex. It's hard because everyone downstream quietly built a workaround for the bug it's meant to fix. |
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[07] Left a comment on the PR just to prove I'd actually read it. Nobody checks if the comment makes sense. |
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[08] What's the oldest TODO comment you've personally walked past in a codebase? Mine references a framework the company stopped using in 2016. |
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[09] Turned on the feature flag for 1% of users. The 1% found it immediately and none of the other 99% ever will. |
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[10] Wrote a regex to solve one problem. Now I have a regex and a support rota for the regex. |
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Same week, earlier years. No feed is going to show you these again.
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15 SEPTEMBER 2020 90% of programming is asking the right question so the answer shows up on page 1 of Google’s search results |
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14 SEPTEMBER 2017 1/3 of US bandwidth is used by Netflix...
the rest is used by `rm -rf node_modules && npm install` |
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16 SEPTEMBER 2019 You either die a web developer, or live long enough to call yourself a software engineer. |
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