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I just looked at code so bad that I decided to resign today instead of December.

I feel like Satan just reached through my eyeballs and punched me in my frontal cortex.

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@ludicity wow that is impressive. Leave a commit with a single added line:

//TODO: Resign

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@ludicity
Well, if you're that miserable maybe it's the push you needed and you can send Satan a fruit basket or something.

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@ludicity ha creating code so bad that it makes someone ragequit is now on my bucket list.

In all seriousness, congratulations mate.

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@ludicity and/or a git blame “-you- made me do this”

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@Cacotopos

"As a data engineer

I want to die

So that you can't hurt me with this architecture anymore"

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@banana Someone here once saw me write a commit without -m, and it turns out 60% of the team didn't know you could do that, which is why 50% of our commits, and this is serious, say "linting fix".

There are also 27 instances of the word "stupid".

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@ludicity @banana What's wrong with writing "linting fix" if the commit is just a linting fix?
That said, I'd say usually it's best to amend the previous commit with the linting fixes if they haven't been pushed yet.

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@ludicity They don’t know how to use git on the command line* _and_ they don’t use a GUI tool such as GitHub Desktop?

*I don’t blame them for that.

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@ludicity @banana I have a wrapper function around git which forbids me from using -m for exactly that reason

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@DrHyde @ludicity @banana I have "git commit -save" in my typing muscle memory, where 'e' opens the editor, and 'v' also shows the diff which is quite convenient.
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@ludicity

I've pretty much worked on my own code for 35 years now, so my problems are self inflicted. They aren't that bad, though, at least not *to me*.

In what I read from your blog post (so far) you seem to be dealing with Google Analytics and AWS logs. I'm semi-convinced that they break those on purpose because their income depends on projects being untrackable.

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I've pretty much worked on my own code for 35 years now, so my problems are self inflicted.
This is what I do here too, sadly it does not pay the bills.

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@vv221

I've done it in a decidedly bill paying sense (single person highly specialized business).

@ludicity

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That might be the trick: here I keep doing it as a non-profit activity, so I need to regularly take a job working on someone else’s awful code.

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