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It Works On My Machine Actual

It Works On My Machine Actual
The ETERNAL BATTLE of software development in three panels! First, we have the developer smugly declaring their code works on their machine—as if their laptop is some magical unicorn with special powers. Then the product manager DESTROYS their entire existence with the brutal reality check that customers won't be getting their precious developer machine. And finally, the developer's character development arc completes when they reluctantly accept they need to provide actual reproducible steps instead of shrugging and saying "it doesn't work" like some kind of code detective dropout. The struggle is REAL and the pain is IMMEASURABLE! Docker containers were literally invented because of this exact conversation happening 10 million times per day!

Limited Resources

Limited Resources
The eternal battle between QA and Dev teams in their natural habitat: Discord. QA desperately needs to demo something but can't because devs are hogging the development server. Meanwhile, the dev's brilliant solution? "Stop demo 😛" followed by the mic drop explanation that "stop using Dev server = Stop development." That perfect circular logic that makes perfect sense... if you're a developer who thinks testing is just an annoying interruption to your "real work." Every company has exactly one development environment, and it's unfortunately shared between people who want to build things and people who want to break things.

Dev Vs Prod: A Tale Of Two Environments

Dev Vs Prod: A Tale Of Two Environments
The eternal lie we tell ourselves: "It works on my machine!" Left side: Your code running on localhost - a magnificent beast with muscles that could bench press a server rack. Status 200, everything's perfect, and you're basically a coding god. Right side: The same exact code after deployment - a pathetic, malnourished doggo surrounded by CORS errors, cookie sharing issues, and bad requests. Suddenly your beautiful creation is about as functional as a chocolate teapot. The production environment: where developer confidence goes to die and debugging nightmares begin. But hey, at least it worked in development!

Eat, Survive, Cannot Reproduce

Eat, Survive, Cannot Reproduce
The fundamental laws of nature: eat, survive, reproduce. The fundamental laws of software: works in production, don't touch it again. Ever tried to recreate that weird bug that only happens in production but refuses to show up in your test environment? It's like trying to explain to your PM why something that worked yesterday suddenly doesn't—pure digital Darwinism. The code evolves to survive only in its native habitat, mocking our attempts to understand it. After 15 years of debugging, I've learned one truth: some bugs aren't meant to be reproduced, just documented with "fixed by unknown changes" and quietly closed.