Deploying To Production Before Holiday Break: What Could Go Wrong

Who needs test-driven development when you can have bug-driven testing? The top panel shows the proper way to catch bugs—writing tests to find problems in your code. But let's be real... the bottom panel captures what actually happens in the trenches. You write some janky code, it breaks spectacularly in production, and suddenly you're frantically writing tests to figure out what the hell went wrong. It's the classic "I'll write tests later" approach that somehow becomes "I'll write tests when everything catches fire." The smug satisfaction on that face says it all—there's a twisted joy in debugging through chaos rather than preventing it in the first place.

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.

Ah, the classic code review escalation pattern. First, a technical question about WSL2. Then a polite explanation. Then suddenly the boss goes full nuclear: "I'm the head of engineering and could fire you" followed by "you'll be terminated and lose your 50K." Nothing says "healthy workplace culture" like threatening someone's career over a Windows Subsystem for Linux test. The corporate equivalent of bringing a flamethrower to a paper airplane fight.

Ah yes, the classic debugging scenario where the big Spider-Man (developers) is actually trying to solve problems while baby Spider-Man (project managers and designers) stands there with that "I'm contributing" energy. Nothing quite like having someone hover over your shoulder suggesting you "just fix the bug" while you're neck-deep in legacy code written by a developer who left three years ago. The little one's face perfectly captures that mix of confusion and unearned confidence that appears right before they ask "is it fixed yet?" for the fifth time in an hour.

The cosmic horror of being assigned as a code reviewer for a 208-file pull request with +114,948 lines added and -1,130 lines removed. The giant, menacing figure represents the monstrous PR towering over the poor developer who's been summoned to review this abomination. That's not a codebase change—that's a whole new dimension of pain being introduced into your repository! The "And It Is Only Monday" title perfectly captures that sinking feeling when your week starts with what can only be described as a code war crime. Whoever submitted this PR clearly doesn't believe in atomic commits or the concept of human mercy.

Looking at this dependency graph is like watching a murder mystery where every header file is both a victim and a suspect. The C++ include nightmare on full display here—a tangled web that would make even the most hardened senior dev reach for the whiskey drawer. Circular dependencies, cascading includes, and enough arrows to start a small archery business. And somewhere in this mess, a junior dev is about to add another header file and bring the whole 45-minute compile time to its knees. Remember kids, this is why we have forward declarations and precompiled headers. But who am I kidding? We'll all be debugging this spaghetti next sprint anyway.