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The Real Reason We Use CI
Devops Agile Git Programming Testing
18 days ago 66.3K views 0 shares
The Real Reason We Use CI
Nobody tells you the truth in engineering school. We don't implement CI/CD because it's "industry best practice" or because some architecture astronaut said so. We do it for that sweet, sweet dopamine hit when all the build checks turn green. It's basically developer cocaine. The satisfaction of seeing five successful builds in a row might be the only thing keeping some of us from switching to careers in gardening.

The Sweet Dopamine Hit Of Green Checkboxes
Testing Programming Debugging
1 month ago 82.8K views 0 shares
The Sweet Dopamine Hit Of Green Checkboxes
Left panel: Absolute existential dread when faced with writing actual tests for your code. Right panel: Sudden burst of dopamine and laser focus when those little green checkmarks start appearing. The perfect representation of developer priorities—validation first, actual work... eventually. The testing equivalent of cleaning your entire apartment to avoid writing one paragraph of documentation.

ADHD And Coding: The Ultimate Dopamine Switcheroo
Python Programming Databases
1 month ago 125.2K views 0 shares
ADHD And Coding: The Ultimate Dopamine Switcheroo
The ultimate ADHD trap - an ad promising to replace one dopamine addiction with... *checks notes*... 17 different programming courses that you'll totally finish this time! 🙃 Nothing says "I've conquered my scrolling habit" like starting 36 lessons on Data Analytics that you'll abandon after the first coding high wears off. The irony of using a structured curriculum to fix your executive dysfunction is just *chef's kiss*. Pro tip: You can tell this was made by someone with ADHD because they somehow thought learning Python, R, SQL, NumPy, and pandas simultaneously was a reasonable plan. The only thing missing is "Introduction to Finishing What You Started" - 0 lessons, ∞ hours.