I cross-posted this post on my personal blog.
A little while back, I started a repo of funny (and insightful!) programming quotes and proverbs. These often take a shape of an existing proverbs (like Rome wasn't built in a day) and get translated to be tech-relevant and hopefully give you a good chuckle (like Facebook wasn't built in a day). Protip: You can put these into Slack as the loading/intro messages. :)
Without further ado, here are my favorites to brighten your day:
When you reach wizened-engineer level, there are at least a hundred wizened engineers above you.
A deployed MVP is worth two prototyped.
Sleep on a force push.
Sometimes you have to cut legacy support to allow the new product to bloom.
Good test coverage + automated workflows = quiet cell phones and better sleep.
There is no test without first a failure
Anger and stubborness make bad allies in code review
With commit and deploy access comes great responsibility
Don't put all your logic in one method basket
A foreach loop avoided is a CPU cycle earned.
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And slight shameless self-quote:
That’s how I write code. 😎
First run is usually something like Pseudocode in VS, using methods that not yet exist but lining the rough path.
And then the tedious work.
Next run, the same for each of the not yet existing methods.
And so on... until all methods do, what they are supposed to.
Go to the quotes repo and open up a PR for that self-quote!
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Shouldn't that be merge instead of commit tho?
I guess that depends! I was thinking more about not being able to push to
masterunless you have that permission.Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
Amen!
"Working code is better than good looking code."
Not listed but one of my other favorites:
Antonin - you may enjoy these Perl(i)s of wisdom
There is also The Zen of Python
I know! There are tons of these. :)
Leave the camp better than you found it, it applies to programming and almost everything in life 😁
Get app, stand app, stand app for your app! Get app, stand app, don't give up the fight!
Is this Dr. Seuss? 😂
Keep it secret !
If you don't know how to solve the problem, stop typing. It's not funny, but it saves lots of time.
My favorite: "There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't".