Man. Being a programmer causes brain pain. Like the levels of convoluted fuckery that occur are just somehow really frustrating and you can actually FEEL it. Like, on Friday, I got this request to do a code review. The guy is in a rush. Wants it done today, so he has no time for my suggestions. - ThreadSky

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suryastra.bsky.social • 22 days ago

Man. Being a programmer causes brain pain. Like the levels of convoluted fuckery that occur are just somehow really frustrating and you can actually FEEL it.

Like, on Friday, I got this request to do a code review. The guy is in a rush. Wants it done today, so he has no time for my suggestions.

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suryastra.bsky.social•22 days ago

Alright, well, he added a check constraint to a database column that needs to be dropped. He tried dropping it, but got an error cuz the constraint doesn't exist. WTF?

"Can we please deploy it anyways? I don't want to block anyone."

And man, I really wish I had said no. Really wish I'd stood up.

suryastra.bsky.social•22 days ago

And now he's on vacation, and I'm finding out that MySQL 5.7 accepts these constraints but doesn't actually add them, just for compatibility.

So of course he can't remove it locally, it doesn't fucking exist!

Which tells me he didn't fucking test his shit before publishing it, FFS!

suryastra.bsky.social•22 days ago

Yeah, we accept statements to add them for compatibility, but trying to remove one will result in an error. Okay, thanks MySQL. Fucking thanks for nothing.

suryastra.bsky.social•22 days ago

It gets fucking better! Turns out the version that's running on the production server DOES support these constraints. Fuck yeah! Now we have rogue code running in int, staging, and prod that's on nobody's dev box.

suryastra.bsky.social•22 days ago

And it's because MySQL is a bitch, my coworkers are in a rush, cheating on the SDLC, merging directly to production, and I was too much of a fucking weakling to stand up and say "no" to them! FUCKING FUCK ME FUCK I'M A LITTLE BITCH.

suryastra.bsky.social•22 days ago

So now I get to go engage the ops team to hand-prune this rogue code that's on 3 servers and zero dev boxes. I spent 5 hours of my weekend and my entire Monday morning chasing this wild goose, and now I get to go eat crow with ops. Fuck! It hurts!

Let programmers say, "no."

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