The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

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The Grug Brained Developer A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained Introduction this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused grug brain developer try collect learns into small, easily digestible and funny page, not only for you, the young grug, but also for him because as grug brain developer get older he forget important things, like what had for breakfast or if put pants on big brained developers are many, and some not expected to like this, make sour face THINK they are big brained developers many, many more, and more even definitely probably maybe not like this, many sour face (such is internet) (note: grug once think big brained but learn hard way) is fine! is free country sort of and end of day not really matter too much, but grug hope you fun reading and maybe learn from many, many mistake grug make over long program life apex predator of grug is complexity complexity bad say again: complexity very bad you say now: complexity very, very bad given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex complexity is spirit demon that enter codebase through well-meaning but ultimately very clubbable non grug-brain developers and project managers who not fear complexity spirit demon or even know about sometime one day code base understandable and grug can get work done, everything good! next day impossible: complexity demon spirit has entered code and very dangerous situation! grug no able see complexity demon, but grug sense presence in code base demon complexity spirit mocking him make change here break unrelated thing there what!?! mock mock mock ha ha so funny grug love programming and not becoming shiney rock speculator like grug senior advise club not work on demon spirit complexity and bad idea actually hit developer who ...

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