It's almost done

The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% of the task takes the other 90% of the time.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I try to remember to always under promise expectations. Even after all these years I keep forgetting that a simple change is never really that simple and has lots of overhead.

It’s crazy that they got these images from my lunch today.

I've been working on a single bug for nearly 3 weeks. I think my "I'm getting closer to understanding this" is starting to lose credibility with my team.

I feel attacked.

How can you be a complete stranger and still hurt me so personally?

This truly hurts.

As a pessimistic (i.e. often times realistic) dev, I can tell you, management does not want to hear that either...

“I should have a PR up today sometime”…repeats that phrase in the morning huddle 4 days in a row.

What you said: "It's almost done"

What the PM heard: "It's done"

What the business tells its clients: "It's deployed and already servicing customers"

Ffrom a dev perspective it's also often "Yep that would take three days if we worked on it". Two years later - no progress.

There's a difference between an estimate and a promise to deliver.

I'm ded. Although my big trick lately is just adding 3x to whatever I think, and it works pretty well

Screenshot depicting my stand up exactly 3 days ago