The Accidental Requirements Engineer

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Content OMG All the secrets of our codebases got leaked! OMG Only your team's secret is safe! How is this possible? Well we used a top-security method. We put the secret into a random Reddit meme no one cares about. Then we fetch the meme and extract the secret No one has ever thought that any idiot can be stupid enough to do that. Not even the hackers. ..WTF?

When your coffee machine starts speaking C++, you know it's going to be that kind of Monday. This fancy Siemens machine is having a vector::M_range_check exception while still managing to pour a perfect latte. The irony isn't lost on me—the one machine that's supposed to prevent debugging sessions is now requiring one. Somewhere, a software engineer is getting paged because they didn't validate array bounds in the milk frother algorithm. And yet, here we are, still desperately drinking the exception-brewed coffee because let's face it, fixing bugs without caffeine is like trying to compile with syntax errors.

The famous WWII survivorship bias diagram strikes again! During the war, engineers analyzed returning planes to decide where to add armor. They marked bullet holes (red dots) on returned aircraft—but the critical revelation was that they should armor the unmarked areas , since planes hit there never made it back. YouTube's anti-adblock crusade perfectly mirrors this logical fallacy. They're only measuring revenue from users who stick around after being forced to disable adblock—completely missing all the users who just abandon the platform entirely. It's like optimizing your codebase by only listening to the three users who didn't rage-quit after your UI redesign.

Content when you merge your code with master and everything breaks Well yes, have mascacred my boy but it's Rewind time.

Content 4pm wake up 5pm ( Email boss that project will be delayed 6pm Label yesterdays code as deprecated 7pmBEER TIME 8pm malloc(LONGLONGMAX, 9pm include windows.hs to triple compile time 10pm Obfuscate dev branch Upm Bully Rust users online 12pm Remove tests Tam Deploy (friday only) 2am Gn