If It Ain't Broke, Don't Refactor It

When your production server is literally on fire and someone's genius solution is "Switch to Google Chrome" 😂 This is peak tech support energy – like when your database is corrupting, servers are melting down, and that one person suggests clearing your cache. The Earth is literally exploding in the image, and homie's solution is a browser change. Reminds me of the time our entire API cluster crashed and someone in Slack suggested "have you tried incognito mode?" Pure gold for anyone who's ever received completely irrelevant troubleshooting advice during a genuine crisis.

Content fix CI committed on Sep 22, 2018 fix CI committed on Sep 22, 2018 So that was a fucking lie.

Content Microsoft After all... why not? use an integer to store a date in the yyMMddHHmm format

Content Working Software The jar files that Vivek. the sys-admin, copied into the cluster to hot-fix the production release that brought down the web site. The family meal that Beth, the SRE, missed having to work late to reconcile the CICD pipeline with the hot-fix Vivek made. WHAT YOU SEE WHAT YOW DON'T SEE The weekend that Megan, the Senior Developer, spent fixing code that Jerry, the Junior Developer, left behind when he quit in a huff. The 3 hour argument that the dev-lead had with the product manager trying to avoid corrupting the app's API. Rock) 2019

The sacred trinity of IT troubleshooting, visualized with scientific precision. Roughly 70% of problems magically resolve with the ancient ritual of "turning it off and on again." Another 15% require the advanced technique of typing error messages into Google and nodding thoughtfully at Stack Overflow posts. The remaining 15%? Just walk into the room and watch users suddenly exclaim "Oh wait, it's working now!" Nothing fixes technology faster than the quantum observer effect of someone who looks like they know what they're doing.

The classic programmer amnesia syndrome in full display! Nothing quite like the journey from "this code is garbage" to "oh wait, I wrote this masterpiece" in 0.5 seconds flat. That moment of horrified judgment—complaining about global variables and try-catch blocks spanning miles—only to realize you're critiquing your own digital fingerprints. The cognitive dissonance of immediately pivoting to "actually, the logic isn't that bad" is pure self-preservation at work. It's like finding an old diary entry and thinking "who wrote this nonsense?" before recognizing your own handwriting. The mental gymnastics we perform to protect our fragile programmer egos deserve an Olympic medal.