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ADHD and programming is a fun mix.
"We do this because once it's automated it'll be so much faster, I swear! We'll make up the dev time in... ~5 years if no further adjustments are needed~"
Progress on ticket: 0% Progress on things that bothered me while starting ticket 273%
I put really boring tasks into the backlog to motivate my developers to do everything else faster.
Huh? If they’d do everything else faster, they’d only get faster to the boring stuff. How is that an incentive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
“I just want to use rsync and inotify to automatically sync my data to my NAS so I never again have to forget backing up before doing something stupid. I hate coding and I’m terrible at it but it’ll be fine! It’s 2 commands, HOW HARD COULD IT BE? I’m sure 10 lines of bash can do it.”
Aaaaaand there went my whole weekend 💀 💀 💀
AGAIN
Why do I keep doing this to myself? 😭
(But it works! Kinda. Well it’s a matter of perspective, who can say what objectively defines the concept of “working”? It does SOMETHING. So technically it does works. CQFD)
And don’t get me started on maintenance and dependencies. On a big enough project that’s a job for life