No More Errors, Finally Some Peace

Content Me when the police officer demands that I drop the knife, but I keep stabbing anyways because it was a warning instead of an error (I am a software developer)

Ah, the inevitable evolution of every code warrior! First you're Patrick Star - blissfully unaware that your "hello world" program is held together with digital duct tape. Then comes the SpongeBob phase - bright-eyed and thinking "I'll revolutionize tech with my clean code practices!" Fast forward a few years and *boom* - you're Squidward, staring at legacy code written by your past self, wondering why you chose this career path instead of opening that beach-side taco stand. The transformation from "what's a semicolon?" to "I will end whoever wrote this dependency" is basically a developer rite of passage. It's not burnout, it's enlightenment! 🧘‍♂️

Content BACK VOCALIST Gets a fraction of frontman's paycheck Can't take a break during work hours Drinks to forget old memories from work Has to work in synch with frontman Noone will probably notice your mistake BACKENDER Gets roughly the same pay as frontender Seems like he's always on a break drinking coffee Drinks with sysadmin to aquaire old memories from work Can work both synchronous and asynchronous 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

Content 10 WAYS TO TROLL YOUR DEVELOPER 1: CHANGE ALL CONSOLE SETTINGS TO BLACK ON BLACK. STRANGE... NO DEBUG PRINTOUTS 2: HAVE THEM FIX OLD CODE. 3: REQUIRE IT TO WORK ON ALL PLATFORMS. IT WILL HAVE TORUN ON IOS, ANDROID, WINDOWS PHONE AND THIS ROTARY FROM 1931. 4: HIRE UNQUALIFIED DEVELOPERS. CHAD WILLBE DOING UI. 5: DISREGARD ANY NEED FOR TESTING. A TESTING PHASE ISN'T REALLY IN THE BUDGET IT'S JUST GONNA HAVE TO WORK 6: REQUIRE IT TO WORK FOR ALL USER GROUPS. MR. NIBBLES SAID ITS VERY UNINTUITIVE. MEOW. 7: POP YOUR HEAD IN EVERY FIVE MINUTES TOROND OVER YOUR STUPID COWORKERS SHARON USES A QUESTION MARK WHEN SHE GOOGLES A QUESTIONI 8: BLOCK ALL ACCESS TO STACK OVERFLOW. NOW, NOW, NO CHEATING CELO 9: MAKE ALL TASKS TOP PRIORITY. THE DATABASE NEEDS TO BEUP AND RUNNING ASAP, AS WELL AS THE AUDIO ENGINE, CRITICAL AND ALSO 3D BUTTON SHADING. 10:ASK A DEV TO 'FIX YOUR COMPUTER' MR. NIBBLES WAS WATCHING GOOD WIFE AND SUDDENLY THIS BLUE THINGY CAME War and Peas

Nothing says "totally not stressed" like aging 40 years in 29. That beard isn't white from wisdom—it's from debugging legacy code at 3 AM while production is on fire. The sunglasses aren't a fashion statement; they're hiding the thousand-yard stare from staring at Stack Overflow for 72 consecutive hours. But sure, Nerijus, tell us again how IT isn't stressful while your eye twitches uncontrollably behind those lenses.

Ah, the four horsemen of software development reality. On one side, you've got non-engineers throwing random examples at you like confetti at a parade. Meanwhile, engineers are busy creating elegant abstract models with "general rules" that work beautifully... in theory. Then comes implementation - that beautiful moment when your elegant solution crashes into the wall of "weird corner cases" and "unintended consequences." Don't forget the obligatory hack comment that somehow keeps the whole thing from imploding. And finally, the solution that SHOULD have been implemented - simple, straightforward, and completely ignored in favor of whatever Frankenstein's monster we actually shipped. With a "red herring" thrown in just to make sure we wasted time chasing something irrelevant. This isn't a meme. It's a documentary.