Programming & Programmers – Polojko's Blog!

Manual

Manual programming? WTF?!

Tangible

As a programmer, you can spend your whole life without creating anything tangible.

Reflection

Software is just a reflection of the people involved: messy and incomplete.

Real

To paraphrase Dr. House: if I invested as much time and effort as I did in software, I could’ve been a real engineer!

Guardians

… but maintainers of legacy systems are treated as janitors rather than guardians.

– Joan Westenberg, article on Medium

Excuse

Most tech jobs are not hard. We just made them complicated to justify our existence.

– Ferid Brković, article on Medium

Paradox

Every programmer/coder is an architect, whereas not many architects are programmers.

“Right” way

Every generation of programmers thinks they’re the first to discover the “right” way. Like teenagers discovering sex, but with more documentation and worse social skills.

– Krzyś, article on Medium

Species

Management and devs are two different species.

Caveman

Coding like a Caveman

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