The development process that my boss called SCRUM. It was anything but. Management thought they could make us do more work than possible.

None of my collabs were walk in a park. Some were better, and some worse. Never worked in a team that worked without serius communication problems. Some individuals stuck out as great for me to work with. I guess you can’t have a perfect team.

Few of us went to the break. After 20 minutes or so, this one guy just stands up, says he’ll be right back, and leaves. We figured he went to the toilet or something. He never came back

Survive.

Me, doing a large update on a table without backup and dry run.

I don’t really think this makes me a better dev, but playing guitar and watching tv shows helps me relieve some stress. Also, spending time with my fiancée. If anything, my job made me a worse dev, which is sad and ironic.

Editing code directly on production.

Not learning C properly.

Password field unique in database.

Stuff I need to finish:
PHP framework
Music player for android
Nginx module for crypting mp4 fragments
Personal blog engine
Unit and data converter service
Personal transactions application

Too much, just too much...

First time with C language.

Getting up early in the morning.

Micro-management people. Still working on that though.

I'm tired of being forced to use an overengineered library for every little thing I'm given to implement. I don't want to add nodejs bloatware to my service just because I neet to pass single json object through a message pipeline. I'm all for reusability, but this is crossing every line now.

I'm beginning to think that it's not important to know how to code anymore, but how good you are at handling management.

"Hardcode it for now so the client can test it, then we'll fix it later."

Never fixed.

Wait, why is nginx communicating from our cache servers to app servers using HTTP1.0? Added http_version 1.1 to a general config. Moments away our responses return 500 on our production because one of our module doesn't handle gzip. If I ever had a heart attack...