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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 133 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As the senior dev, please don't.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I am the senior dev and idk what the fuck I am doing, leave me alone

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just stare at it long enough, it’ll work itself out

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It literally did that just yesterday. I need to retrain for a new job. Something with wood or plants in general I think.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lol it’s 50/50 sr devs I know love or detest technology

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just ask questions until people figure it out for themselves

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] harlyson@lemm.ee 63 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As someone who is not quite junior, but not quite senior, do it. It might just get me promoted ಠᴗಠ

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You did so great on that case, were having a pizza party for the whole office!

[–] harlyson@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds like I’ve been promoted to the guy that eats the entire pizza by himself

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 months ago

… tell me again why you thought plugging into the prod server was a good idea?

[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wait until becoming the reason your boss has to get involved

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Be the reason the corporate PR team has to get involved.

[–] swab148@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago

Be the reason the Hazmat Compliance team has to get involved

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

*Looking at the senior devs JavaScript code

My God, it even has a watermark.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, no, that's a coffee stain. On the screen.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

But why is there an exact copy of the coffee stain on my screen as well?

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

drops rubber duck

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Be the reason Legal has to get involved.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm the reason we get a safety meeting today, if that counts? 😊

[–] runeko@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, and it counts double if code you wrote was the reason for the safety meeting.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am the senior dev. Please. No.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You're that afraid of the code you wrote 10 years ago too eh? 🤣

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I shudder at the thought of the ancient 1000+ lines Perl scripts.. The seal must not be broken

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perl and regex are modern day black magic

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I honestly still use Perl for small scripts as a Bash alternative. It is very powerful and is already installed everywhere. I just try not to use it for things others might have to work on..

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago
[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

As staff engineer, I'm far too busy to read any of these comments. Also I haven't written any code in 4 years

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What does a staff engineer do? Engineers staff?

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Carry a big stick

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Is that your staff or are you just happy to see me?

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago

Oh don't worry, I get myself involved in plenty. I prefer to make problems at the architectural or "leadership" level though.

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Im a mid with two juniors under me, super happy when they take initiative and do something creative

.. instead of following youtrack to the letter, leaving me to rewrite half of it before the merge 😔

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Pre-commit code reviews, preferably in person or at least live, are a great way to learn and teach. They explain what they did and why, you suggest alternatives.

Doing it pre commit is best because it it’s done later, they’ve already moved on.

And the learning goes both ways.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I usually am, I am support and I ask questions about features so old and undocumented that no one else knows the answer.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This, but remove the "else"

..yes, not even the author

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Or the author left and no one really knew what their job involved. Had one like that recently, tried to contact someone only to find out they have left. Oh, ok well who handles the content template site now? Oh, me? No one told me about this or how to use it.

[–] SatouKazuma@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How the fuck does one get out of junior dev status? I'm at like 3.5 YoE and stuck in it.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You have to create technical debt specific to your skillset

[–] SatouKazuma@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Lmao. I'm in charge of migrating a C codebase to Rust, so I don't think I'll be lacking in that department.

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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

These days you're lucky to be able to work as a dev at all. To get out of junior dev you needed to get into the industry 5 years sooner.

[–] SatouKazuma@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So...I'm fucked? Lovely...

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[–] ITguru@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

Yooo somebody called me?

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