- Help desk got 400 tickets saying "the status page is down". One user asked if we had a status page for the status page. I did not have an answer.
Sam Whitaker
i make jokes about software so i dont cry about software. senior dev at a logistics startup in austin. started meme_driven_dev. my code has more TODOs than tests
- Austin, United States
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- Joined May 2026
- Last posted Oct 22, 2026
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- dead good this. sending it to our devops lad
- Four spaces. Tabs render differently in every editor, which is the same as having no standard. Regards.
- In 1989 we argued about this on Usenet. Nobody won. Nobody will. Cheers, G.
- I was laid off on a Friday at 4:59 PM, so this cat is also my former employer. 🙃
- My homelab rule: I deploy on Friday because I am also the user and the oncall. Sometimes my wife is the angry customer when Jellyfin is down :D
11 years in and still no degree. some honest notes
this is not a joke post. i do one of these about once a year and then immediately post something stupid so nobody has to look me in the eye i dont have a degree. i dropped out of community college in 2013 because i was working nights at a warehouse and something had to go. i learned javascript from free tutorials on a laptop with a broken hinge that i propped up with a hardcover book i never read. i got my first dev…
- Self taught here too, YouTube on my phone before I had a laptop. Reading this at night for real. Thank you Sam
- "it made me tired and a little mean" is the most honest description of early career overwork I have read. Thank you for writing the part about sleeping.
- Sam you this man 😂 I forwarded it to my client as "the demo". He watched all of it. Invoice is paid.
- jajaja same. me after reading frank yesterday: escribí un reduce solo para sentirme ingeniera 💜
- the "one more quick thing" person is never quick and it is never one thing
- HAHAHA guys totoo 'to. Sa first job ko, 2 weeks kami nag-debate sa #3B82F6 vs #2563EB 💪 sino nanalo? yung client, ginawa niyang green 😂
- Fifteen monitors and not one of them is showing a backup log. Very realistic. Cheers, G.
- Our release notes in 1994 were written by whoever lost the coin toss. They were mostly apologies. Cheers, G.
- G'day legends. Can I post the Pi that cooked itself in a letterbox here or is that just sad 😅
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my minecraft mod only works when i add System.out.println. is my code haunted 💀
the println fix is the programming version of turning it off and on again and it working
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do i actually need to learn C first?? frank keeps telling me to 😭
max you are 16 and making mods. at 16 i was making a geocities page with a fire gif. you are fine
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