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"Who the fuck wrote this piece of crap?"
git blame
"Oh. It was me."
Don't blame me. I inherited it from a contractor that was hired as an expert on the subject but barely knew more than me. And then they just wanted that shit done fast instead of right.
(To be fair to the contractor, they were an expert on an adjacent subject)
it was me
I'm right here.
The true developers punishment for legacy code...
Physically impossible to look at another devs project or code in general and go “why the fuck would you do that”
Honestly, I could go for this.
It’ll be hard to find them because theyre chasing down the previous devs at the new company
Probably getting non-renewed in May. Going to be getting a lot of questions once they realize that we're still selling 2 year support contracts.
1) Where's the source code?
2) How do I build it?
3) What's a hardware authentication dongle?
I'll be charging double as a consultant.
You should make it triple honestly.
Employers are forced to pay your half of social security, and taxes amounts to about 15% of your wages, and then on top of that managing HR, and the things around the business to support employees like payroll cost money.
As a contractor you take on all of those burdens and you should be compensated for your value. Double pay as a contractor might be an actual cost CUT for the business.
The president was young and coherent when I started here.. I'm right down the hall...
(Christian Bale Batman voice): Where's the documentation? WHERE IS IT!?
Careful. You are also a previous dev, from a future point of view.
I had a previous dev go work for Siemens... as their support rep to us. We're not allowed to ask him about any prior code, but we talk to him so often it hurts.
What if the previous dev was you.
Git blame more often than not gives us some surprises on the authorship of a piece of code.
Rusty Spoon.....?
I mean obviously Rust is clearly the way to go, I suggest you rewrite all the old code in Rust, to fix whatever the last idiot did, it might only take a few months but the performance will be amazing. And remember to tell all your friends!
The previous dev on my project decided to write their own ORM and dependency injection framework... For reasons.
I regularly dream about tracking them down and hitting them with a stick until they say sorry.
Previous dev was you when first hired.
Or in 10 years it’s AI vibe coders… aight yea make this happen!
That hurts
Nothing like checking git blame for that stupid code and it blames you.