The Two Faces Of Development

Content HOW DID YOU FIX ALL THE BUGS IN SUCH A SHORT SPAN OF TIME? I DELETED ALL THE TEST CASES THAT WERE FAILING. workchronicles.com - WAIT, WHAT?! Comics about work. Made with lots of coffee. Get the comics straight to your Inbox. Join the Newsletter. Work Chronicles workchronicles.com

The ultimate family tech support escape plan. CS degree holder discovers that coming out as "lightbulb.jpg" is far more effective than explaining for the 500th time that "turning it off and on again" actually works. The sheer genius of trading occasional holiday dinners for never having to fix Aunt Karen's printer that "worked fine yesterday." Modern problems require modern solutions - and sometimes those solutions involve getting disowned. Worth it.

The classic "two people thinking about completely different things" scenario strikes again! When developers say they "love consoles," they're usually talking about terminal windows where they can feel like hackers from the 90s, typing cryptic commands and watching green text scroll by. Meanwhile, normal humans think of PlayStations, Xboxes, and Switches—you know, devices actually designed for fun rather than debugging production issues at 2AM while chugging energy drinks. The perfect relationship miscommunication for the technically inclined!

When your coworker describes their code with fancy buzzwords to make their basic CRUD app sound like arcane sorcery. The classic "npm install" vs "summoning ethereal dependencies from the void" energy. Every standup has that one developer who can't just say "I fixed a bug" without making it sound like they reversed entropy in the universe. Meanwhile, their GitHub commits are just "updated readme" and "fixed typo".

Content Debug (Ctrl Shift D) 48 console. log("im still working"); console. log ("asdjoauhefefefAsda"); console. log ("peanut");

The eternal work ethic of software engineers—where even mortality is evaluated through the lens of optimizing PTO. Nothing says "dedicated professional" quite like hoping your demise conveniently falls before the morning standup. The true sign of a seasoned dev isn't elegant code or clever algorithms—it's calculating how to maximize the efficiency of your own death to avoid wasting a perfectly good sick day. Because heaven forbid you die at 5:01 PM after already putting in a full day of debugging someone else's spaghetti code.