Every Friday I take 2 min to write a detailed note for the future me so I remember what I was doing. No matter how simple the task was.
83That's cheating! Guards! Arrest this filthy impostor!
45Every Friday I think that I should do this for my benefit on Monday, and then immediately forget the thought and log off
19Depending on how complex it could be as short as two sentences or just bullet points. Just enough to kick start my memory.
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You expect me to actually comment my code?
9Not code. I keep a text file "work_log.txt" on my desktop that has the date and what I worked on that day. Useful for scrum too.
Today's:
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Finished the modal
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Solved the swallowing of the exception with parsing errors
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Next: Review modal code and test
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Not even your code. He's expecting you to comment your life.
10No Mr. Bond, I expect you to panic in the Monday morning stand-up meeting.
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Yup. "finished this, start on this next week"
Usually less than two complete sentences. I find this more important with personal projects that I may not pick up in a few weeks
5This is the way.
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I'm not really a programmer but when I code something at work to make my job easier and I have to go before I finish it, I write a little comment for my future self to explain how I'm thinking at the moment, to help restore the flow.
Usually it doesn't work. :-D
48Because my work tends to have me working on a wide variety of features, and thus operating on vastly different parts of the codebase, I make it a point to comment out every change I make complete with the ticket that requested the change, and what the intended effect of the change is.
Cue me returning to piece of code I made (after the inevitable bug has arisen) and me staring at my own code changes in bewilderment, wondering what past me really wanted to do. Hahaha!
7Now you can try to get chatgpt to explain what it does. Or Facebooks code llama.
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Sometimes working at something for long enough puts you into like a fugue state. It’s like the opposite of “flow” where you just dumb down.
^This happens to me only when I had entered my dumbzone the previous shift
41Happens. Then you come back to it after a few days and all the shitfuckery of last session becomes so damn obvious.
20I’ve done this so many times at school and work. It’s crazy what you can accomplish by leaving a problem until the morning.
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Tunnel vision. I get this all the time. Actually more beneficial to go for a walk and not work.
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You very well could have substituted "Monday" with "after lunch."
25I stg sometimes conversations with my coworkers will give me memento disease and I have to go on a hunt for clues I lefy myself to figure out what I was working on 5 mins ago.
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Opening a repository for the first time in months.
Which brainless moron wrote this idiotic code?
Runs blame.
Oh, it was me.
23No one is a real programmer until they've experienced that sensation.
It was more fun before blame, because sometimes it would take 10 minutes to figure out you're the dumbass.
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“Wow, Friday me is an idiot and a jerk.”
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I understand and think the intended content is good. but who would post this with such an obvious layout flaw? it used to be posts with terribly distracting grammar whose intent was relatively easy to decipher. lately it feels like even more basic and obvious rules are being lazily ignored and even shared.
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY.
16My brain honestly just skipped over it until I saw your comment.
5I'll be honest, for a minute I thought it was not a flaw but referring to "Monday Me, on Monday" which is a concept I can relate to
4The text might be automatically added with some script or AI, to perhaps fit different sizes or create items in a batch. Or someone was really lazy, or a combination.
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13Monday morning stand-ups are like, "yeah what AMi working on this week"
6"I'll have it figured out by lunch, probably."
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I'm always pretty happy if I have a bug last thing on a Friday. Gets me right back into it first thing on Monday. It's kinda weird, but works for me.
13If I didn’t do this, I wouldn’t have a job
Gotta leave unfinished tasks and make frivolous jira issues so it looks like there’s a reason to keep paying me to do 2 hours of work a week
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<br>9//TODO write todo comments in your wip code.
Your IDE will make them easy to find or you'll just run into them.
4I always thought this was just a "me" thing. I'm so glad it's not. I just wish my wife understood...
4I know this is a common joke but how many of us don't have a problem like this?
Personally I usually have a horible memory but this is never an issue for me, I can stop at any moment and pick up relatively quickly later
2Yeah, I've developed a habit of writing TODO-comments wherever there's still something unfinished. And well, I usually leave in a compile error to force me to continue exactly there.
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"Who were you..."
2I started using suspend on my dev laptop. I basically never close Neovim, and I write notes to myself about what the code does for the next time I open my laptop. I know that's what comments are for, but whatever
2Every Monday I am on average 50 IQ points less helpful than the rest of the week.
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