the_coding_love();

When the boss asks if I used an AI to finish my dev that fast

Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When the boss asks me to come do a check-in with him on Friday late afternoon

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I enable verbose logging

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When a coworker thanks me for my help even though I did absolutely nothing

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I walk through the open space dodging junior devs’ questions

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When I realize those weren’t test accounts I just deleted

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I make sure no one can see my screen before logging into prod

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When we’re celebrating the production release and I suddenly remember a forgotten bug

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When my code isn’t great but it works

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When I show the sales rep how to work around a display bug for their demo

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When I’m happy to find a README and realize it’s actually empty

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I join a complex project urgently and with zero briefing

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When I’m asked to estimate dev time on a technology I’ve never touched

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When I mess up several compilations in a row

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When I follow the instructions to reproduce an exotic bug

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When I have to log my time and look for a project line that still has available days

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When my pair keeps smearing their fingers all over my screen to explain something

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When the boss asks if we can scale an app that runs on SQLite

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I’m looking for the missing parenthesis in my script

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When a friend lends me their Claude API key paid for by their company

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I’ve been searching for hours and still don’t understand where the bug is coming from

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

The sales rep as soon as I start talking technical in front of the client

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When the build takes a bit longer than usual

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When I fixed a coworker’s code but lost 2 hours helping them

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When the lead dev personally goes to the client to fix a major bug

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When the designer sends me mockups for a 4000px-wide screen

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I write to the sales team to tell them the project will be late

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When we manage to deliver on time but literally at the last minute

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I hear someone say my name in the open space

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When the AI I used to set up the project went too far and I start over from scratch

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When I come across a 500-line switch case

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I’m about to start a big debugging session

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When I run my build and ignore all the warnings

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When the lead dev congratulates me on my optimization that makes the app much faster

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When I see emojis in the junior dev’s comments

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When I dive into logs that are throwing errors in real time

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When it’s the sixth time ChatGPT fails to fix the same bug

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When the senior dev shows me how they optimize their queries

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When the new client tells me they use a Google Sheet as a database

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When the sysadmin walks through the open space while we’re checking something on the prod server

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200

When I finally manage to fix a bug after pulling an all-nighter

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When I realize I accidentally mass-emailed 50,000 users

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200

When I run the first build and forgot to set the environment variables

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When the PO strongly pushes me to handle a story that’s not part of the sprint

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I join a new assignment and I’m told users do the testing

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When the client wants the logo to be clickable “but especially without a link”

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I try to move forward on a feature with absolutely no clear guidance

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When the entire app lives in a single React component

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I discover the cache system is just a simple text file

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When the CTO stops by our floor

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I go back to a project I worked on last month

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When the boss tells me they were generous with their estimate for a batch of features

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When I’m about to join a meeting with a client disputing a deliverable

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When I come across code that uses Math.random() to generate unique IDs

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200

When I ran a massive update and the database hasn’t responded for a few minutes

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When someone comes looking for me to fix a bug in production

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When the tester tells me “it’s broken” with no further details

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When I ask the sales rep how their client meeting went

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200

When someone looks for me to do a code review

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When the product owner changes ticket priorities every hour

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When the designer asks for a parallax effect and I look up what that actually looks like

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When I find a workaround for a bug in production

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When someone configured CORS with a wildcard in production

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When my code has more comment lines than actual code

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When I discover pagination starts at 0 on the backend and 1 on the frontend

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When the PR has more lines of code removed than added

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When I see the Docker image is 4 GB

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200

When I find out the previous developer was doing backups on their desktop

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When I come across an if with 15 consecutive conditions

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When the client says the site was actually better before after 3 months of redesign

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When the new hire explains the logic behind their table with more than 200 columns

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I discover one of our sites has been down for 3 days and no one noticed

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When the boss tells us we’ll do tests when we have time

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When the client asks if we can remove the bugs but keep the features

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200

When the intern fixes in 15 minutes the bug I’ve been stuck on all day

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200

When someone pushes a 50 MB file into the repo

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When the sales rep announces a delivery date without consulting us

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When I realize I’m the only one who’s run the tests in the last 3 months

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When the client approves the quote and then negotiates after delivery

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When the bug only shows up on the CEO’s browser

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0200

When the client thinks GDPR is just a cookie banner hardcoded on their site

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When I discover there’s a 5000ms setTimeout “just to be safe”

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0200

When my pair names their branches “test”, “test2”, “final_test”

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0200

When the legacy runs on a Java version that’s been unsupported for 8 years

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0200

When I discover someone uses a float to store monetary amounts

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0200

When the PO asks if we can track absolutely everything users do

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0200

When I’ve had a terrible week debugging and I leave early on Friday

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100

When I finally understand the build is breaking because of a transitive dependency

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100

When someone comes to talk to me about work during my lunch break

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100

When the boss makes a terrible joke in a team meeting and I’m still waiting for feedback on a raise

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100

When I merge my own PR without waiting for the review

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100

When authentication requires three different factors

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100

When QA finds the first bug in my code in 30 seconds

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100

When I see an enum with 47 possible values

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

When the client tells me they want an app “like TikTok” but for their industry

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100

When the boss asks me to put on a good face with our worst client

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100

When I spent 3 hours configuring ESLint for a 20-line script

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100

When I realize the “Delete” button I implemented has no confirmation

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100

When I discover while debugging that user IDs are sequential and exposed

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

When I receive all the new requests from the sales team

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100

When someone stands up in the open space to go get a coffee

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100