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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 86 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is there a generator for these?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

There are a few from a search, this one came up with a GitHub repo. https://arthurbeaulieu.github.io/ORlyGenerator/

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just use the paint, internet person

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 4 days ago

Bu-but we're programmers

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do you have more of these memes? I'd like to see more.

[–] kora@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Here's some more.

Shared this with my team just recently. Guess there is a lot more of these brilliant edits.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nice! Thanks. :3

Is there a bigger resolution btw?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

From the last time this came up I got most of them from this guys collection.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11139658

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Nice collection. Thanks! :)

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you for this.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

I enjoy this too, but it’s kind of rough when you’ve inverted control, teased apart unnecessary coupling, updated dependencies and backed everything with unit and other tests, but then your colleagues are too scared to code review it.

[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Yes, me too! But, only if I have the autonomy to improve things where I can. Otherwise, I just find it demotivating

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Feeling of deleting lines > Feeling of adding lines

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Ha, turns out there's one for that

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I find that working on production code with well defined use cases and requirements to be the most satisfying, and working on new proof of concept / demos / marketing tools to be the least satisfying.

So on balance, more of the legacy projects I've worked on have fit those criteria than the new builds, but the couple of new builds that had well defined use cases, and no legacy code to deal with were the absolute best.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

also, your own code after you've spent time away from it.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

That is the strangest thing, going back into a program and thinking "what the hell was that guy thinking?" and then realizing it was me.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What fucking ass for brains engineer wrote this dogshit code?!?!?! I'm gonna scroll back to the header find out who wrote and give a piece of my mind to... myself x.x

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

git blame giveth and git blame taketh

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

The time varies but starts at about 1 day for me…