Work is just you being a peon from Warcraft.

"More work?"
"Alright"
"Off I go then"
"Yes MiLord"

One of the most detrimental things for a developer is having a team who doesn't understand the developer and doesn't fit the developer's personality. This is often overlooked.

Management likes to try and be 'scientific' and start to micromanage, as if the cause of someone's slowness really is their technical skill. No, it's often psychological in nature. A great manager will have a one on one real talk with you. A bad manager will ask you to log every single thing you do on every single day and instead of caring for you they will immediately delegate the issue away without taking into account the psychological conflicts between employees and hidden bullying. You can't solve people problems with business processes.

What doesn't help: ignoring the issue and just softening it with "It's your first time, you will get used to it" or "You will get better at this over time". No, you won't.

One of the sure ways to let a developer spiral down into failure is to not address these kinds of issues. Don't promote a former employee to manager. I think a real manager has to have the personality and studies for it. People aren't cogs and life is not black and white. You are dealing with people. People are infinitely complex. How often they forget this.

!rant

Working while listening to Street Fighter II OST.

Hadouuuken! Skoryuken! Tiger!

I've seen this recurring theme: a company says: "We don't have time to educate you".

Why do they say that? I argue it would be beneficial to them that they get someone who is progressively developed in their skillset over time. But no, they always think short-term. It's their loss.

The sad thing is that I notice this with a lot of companies. Short-term thinking is not insightful.

What colleagues are like behind their masks:

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White font. Now red, my bloody code slipping, you're on your tippy toes trip-ping, a-round like no one's code, think you're, sub-li-mi-nal.

I'm the bad Type, make your Java mad Type, might seduce your C Type. I'm the bad Type...

What? Yes, being long enough in the industry makes you deranged. Aaa-hahaa! My invisiliiine!

Big sigh.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

CANT STOP LAUGHING

Buuuurnout, the raaadio! I need the muuusic, give me some more! Yeahhhh!

Leg warmers! Jerry curls!
IIIIII want my MTV!

Doo doo doo doow... -going crazy-
Okay, I am officially going to take a break from studying for work outside of work.

Man, the effort it takes to build a solid foundation in Computer Science. 3 years absolute minimum, 5 years recommended, 10 years so you can start relaxing more because you can rely on your foundation.

I don't wanna be in this current role. Get me outta here.

Rhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I don't know if I'm one of the only ones who struggles performing at their job.

I have a good foundation in Computer Science and a few degrees, yet I somehow always struggle, especially in Business Analysis. I know it's partially my specific situation since I need to catch up on some studying.

I want Software Development to be comfortable, not agony where 80% of the time I'm pulling my hair out trying to understand how something works. It just makes the job unpleasant. I currently hate algorithms, databases and custom client logic.

For me, Software Development is either fun solving a problem, or dealing with a convoluted, annoying business problem that has to be solved in a very custom way, coupled with tons of headaches about how to engineer things. I don't want that. I want fun and discovery, not agony and wishing I weren't in this industry.

What I do at work vs. what I want to be doing:

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Do they forbid music at your office? They do at mine. It's always like a weird atmosphere until the loud people come in. lol. Not a sound, not a peep. If you didn't look around, it's as if people weren't there.

Seriously. It's a bad idea to have music?! I understand that from a concentration perspective, but come on. Let's make business even more boring. lol.

On the other hand, I did work at a place where they had radio playing but they never changed station. It felt like Groundhog day. lmao.

Which AI(s)/LLM(s) do you use for aid with Software Development?

OpenAI, Gemini, Claude,...

You know.. it's funny and sad at the same time.. that in this industry you have to either play the office politics game.. or at a minimum not play by the rules and deviate to your own advantage.. because if you play by the rules, 1) That limits your progress tremendously and 2) lets you be controlled by others, including your career

Having an Active Noise-Cancelling headset is a gift to a Software Developer. Concentrated engineering in any noisy environment.

The dawn of a new generation in luxury personal equipment.

The ANC headset is a premium lightweight, high-performance headset that meets the demands of the new generation of upper-income urban software developers.

The ANC has the conveniences of earplugs, a wireless communications device, and a device without wires.

Muting power is a matter of convenience with the ANC headset.

Have you been forced into a futureless role you hate?

I'm starting to understand this guy.

insert into devlife values('bullshitpeople', 'bullshitmanagement', 'bullshit', 'bullshit_fake_productivity', 'bullshit_mantras', 'bullshit_corporate_culture', 'impossible_requirements', 'impossible_deadlines', 'sabotage', 'etc');

I think most devs have burnout. I do. lol

Did you know that Set Theory is a fundamental building block for studying databases? : )

I just want to express that...

I
LOVE
PROPERLY
DOCUMENTED
KNOWLEDGE

Because I had worked on a project 1 year ago, and with the other projects I had done in the mean time, picking this back up would be challenging. And guess what! I still have my comprehensive manual I wrote for it in detail! Beautiful! Everything neatly written, everything explained, every field, every troubelshooting issue!

I managed to solve every setup issue in seconds! Aah! Aah! Scream for joy. lol

I find it strange. How can employers expect 8 hours of work a day out of you? I mostly get about 4 hours done, 5 if I'm top productive.

I find A.I. to be a nice pair-programmer/buddy to help me out with any questions I may have, where the typical human being doesn't have the time, patience or know-how.

You know what's fun? Building software at your leisure, discovering, etc.

You know what's not fun? Being pressured to learn something in the least amount of time, with the least amount of resources and the least amount of budget.

How many of you wake up and the first screen you see is your development environment (IDE, terminal)? lol

What's this, what's this! It's a head-ache-I-do-fear! What's this! There's de-bug every-where! What's this!

Management: "Let's make the office fuuuun :D"
Me: "Let's make my life less stressfuuuul"

Sometimes we are ping pong balls being smashed from one side to the other. This is me, I'm currently studying a technology. Oops! Change of assignments! Plz study new tech! Ok thanks for the constant context-switching.