"Google does it". I hate that sentence. It's always the beginning of an unreasonable expectation.

Perhaps if we had as much devs as Google we could do it too. But we are 2 devs spread over 15 projects, so fuck off.

And then, Google doesn't even do it well!

Correct response:

"Ah cool! Google also pay their developers well over 6 figures on average, offer 30 days holiday, have unlimited free on-site food, and give all developers a healthy training budget for the year. If we can sort the above out, I'll see what I can do about that feature."

@CoffeeNcode Not quite that many, but we're in a similar boat. We're generally a reasonably small part of that many external ongoing projects though, so most of them just require a few hours here and there spread over a few weeks.

It gets manic sometimes, and isn't ideal, but it is do-able.

@CoffeeNcode

11 of those 15 projects are apps, that all share the same framework and libs. Some of them have not been updated for quite a while now (right now, only 3 are actively worked on).

And then you have the public website (not actively worked on apart from Christmas promo), an obsolete back-end on life support, and the decoupled back-end and front-end (2 separate project). We hired a freelancer for the front-end (though he is gone, that's my responsibility now).

Short answer: we cannot give all of those projects enough love, and we switch often. Business determines what's the most important to work on right now. Generally, only 3 to 6 projects are worked on during a given month.

I always say "search" or "search engine" it as I don't like Google 😅

@linuxxx you can replace Google by Facebook, Apple or Microsoft in this context ;) Or any big company for that matter.

Tell them to try to hire Google for their project, and then see how far they'll come.

@hash-table ah mannnnnnnnnnnn what a great point