My Flirt Skills (Or Lack Thereof)

Oh the beautiful double meaning of "git gud"! 😂 For gamers, it's just trash talk telling them to improve their skills. They brush it off and level up! But for programmers? It's an existential crisis that sends us straight into a spiral of version control nightmares! That Pro Git book might as well be titled "500 Ways to Fix the Mess You Made with Your Repository." Every developer has had that moment of pure dread when they realize they need to actually understand Git beyond just commit and push. The pain is REAL!

Content Marc Gravell marcgravell 1h I don't know how to get this to the ears that need to hear it, but if you end any programming question - whether in Stack Overflow, or GitHub, or anywhere else - with "but it gives an error", without telling me what it said: I want to reach through the screen and slap you. 4 17 6 48 8 V

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The top panel shows the simple, elegant approach to coding that we all pretend to advocate for in design meetings: just instantiate a class and call a method. Clean. Direct. Sensible. But then there's what we actually do when no one's watching (bottom panel): create an unholy chain of factories, managers, services, observers, and other enterprise patterns that would make even the most dedicated architecture astronaut blush. It's the classic "I could write this in 3 lines, but my resume needs buzzwords" approach. We've all been there—turning a simple task into a dissertation-worthy implementation because "scalability" and "best practices," when really we just wanted to flex our design pattern muscles.

Ah, the classic "Scooby-Doo villain reveal" but with a software architecture twist. The company proudly announces their fancy microservice architecture, but when the developer pulls off the mask, surprise! It's just a distributed monolith underneath. For the uninitiated: a distributed monolith is when you split your application into separate services that look like microservices, but they're so tightly coupled they can't be deployed independently. So you get all the complexity of microservices with none of the benefits. It's like buying a sports car but filling the trunk with concrete.