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That moment when your "complex engineering production fix" is just deleting an extra space in a YAML file while the entire business watches you like you're performing heart surgery. YAML indentation errors: bringing businesses to their knees since 2001. The best part? You'll still get called a "technical wizard" in the post-incident review meeting.

Content mCC Follow mcclure111 In C we don't say "Missing asterisk" we say "error C2664: 'void std:vectorblock,std:allocatorTy:push back(const block x)': cannot convert argument 1 from 'std.: Vector iteratorstd.: Vector valstd.: Si mpletypesblock' to 'block '" and i think that's beautiful 4:30 PM - 1 Jun 2018 292 Retweets 926 Likes 20 17 292 926

The dev explaining their "brilliant" fix is the perfect embodiment of that moment when you've spent 8 hours tracking down a null reference exception only to discover it was caused by another null reference exception. It's the coding equivalent of finding out your car won't start because the battery is dead, and the battery is dead because you left the lights on, which you did because the light sensor was broken. The nested dependency hell we all pretend to understand while nodding wisely at standup meetings. The blank stare from the listener is all of us when a colleague tries to explain their spaghetti code architecture. "So you see, the string was empty because the config loader failed silently which happened because the JSON parser threw an exception that got swallowed by a try-catch block I wrote at 2am three months ago."

Content Matt Watson Following 4x Founder, CTOCEO, Podcaster, Blogger, 2 SaaS Exits, Help Compa... 15h 4 "Technical debt": Move fast and don't fix things "Agile development": Admitting you have no plan "TDD": Guessing the future, one test at a time "Open source": Asking someone else to fix it "CICD": Automating your mistakes into production "API": Asking someone else to do it "DevOps": The belief that more tools fix any problem "Microservices": Creating enough small problems to avoid one big one "Cybersecurity": Playing hide and seek with hackers "Serverless": Pretending servers don't exist until the bill comes "Scrum": Group therapy for being behind schedule What did I miss? g

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