I once estimated that a bug fix would take a day. My manager padded it. His manager padded it. *His* manager padded it, and so on. By the time it reached the customer it had hit 6 months. They approved it.

It actually only took half an hour to fix. Because I padded it.

Too many different words; the electorate need a simpler slogan. I propose "America, America, America, America", or AAAA!

Sometimes being flippant is a good gateway to not caring

A million tiny, tiny repos! What could go wrong!?

The video game was first. The board game is an excellent adaptation of it!

The Beeb was great because 10 year old me could turn it on and land directly in a programming environment that let me interact with whatever random thing I'd made and plugged in directly by peeking and poking. No drivers, no libraries, no complex languages to learn.

2/2

The main thing that's missing is that it's a complex, protected mode computing device with layers upon layers of abstractions between the hardware and the user.

1/2

Sounds like this "task" is actually a project

The implication is that the latter means "unlimited interruptions"

It was amazing 😍

Mount Doom scrolling

Beige has been the colour of the year every year since 2019

You'll be great! I'll get the heated blanket ready ...

Chances of failure are inversely proportional to lines of code changed. Beware the one-liner!

I can tell by the pixels that it's Terraform Cloud

Damp microfibre cloth, but I'm not 100% happy with the result. If there's a better way I'm all ears!

Punch into a big ol' pile in the upturned box lid, then read the instructions and sort as I learn