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Can Someone Approve My 2000 Files Changed Pull Request

Programming Git Debugging Agile Devops

1 year ago 361.9K views 0 shares

Can Someone Approve My 2000 Files Changed Pull Request

That moment when you're faced with the eternal developer dilemma: spend an entire day making the codebase better or just slap together some hacky solution that'll come back to haunt you in six months. The hand reaching for that "minimum effort hack" button is all of us at 4:55pm on a Friday. Sure, you could refactor everything properly, but then your PR would be 2000 files and nobody wants to review that monstrosity anyway. Technical debt? That's a problem for Future You. And Future You hates Current You for a reason.

If You Had To Choose One

Databases Programming Backend

1 year ago 306.9K views 1 shares

If You Had To Choose One

The eternal SQL dilemma that haunts database developers everywhere. After 20 years in the industry, I still can't decide which is more morally reprehensible: animal cruelty or writing SQL keywords in lowercase like some kind of database anarchist. The sweating choice button meme perfectly captures that split second before you reluctantly press the lowercase button, knowing full well your senior DBA will somehow sense this transgression from across the building and appear behind your chair with a disappointed sigh. Fun fact: There's actually no technical reason SQL keywords need to be uppercase. It's purely conventional and aesthetic, yet somehow became the hill many database professionals chose to die on.