Dear Gradle, Why So Stubborn?
Do I do something wrong?

Watching juniors try to set up a project and being greeted by cryptic stack traces like it's some kind of initiation ritual.

`Unsupported class file major version 61`
`invalid CEN header zip64 no access package`, ...

Java can compile code for older versions just fine.
It's literally designed for that.
Oh why, must Gradle behave like a bitter librarian who refuses to hand over a book unless I whisper the exact Dewey Decimal Code?
Every other Language will laugh again at java, seeing this.

💡 Why is Gradle bound to a java version? And if Gradle knows it needs Java 11… why doesn't it just do this for me?
Like using `/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11` in background?

🤖 Is there a clean way to force Gradle into submission without adding another tool like SDKMAN or jabba or YunaBraska/gradle-java-fix or whatever the trendy painkiller of the week is?

#Java #Gradle #BuildTools #DevHumor #DeveloperProblems #JDK #ProgrammingPain #CleanCode #SoftwareEngineering #OpenJDK #CodeNewbie #BackendDev #BuildFails

Developers, when your work laptop disk fills up, what's the VERY LAST thing you'll delete? 🤔🗑️
Think carefully!

#DeveloperProblems

Customer: ‘It doesn’t work. Fix it!!’ 🔧💀
Developer: Ah yes, let me just consult my crystal ball… 🔮😤

Clear bug reports save lives (and sanity).

Art by @vincentdnl

#ProgrammerHumor #DeveloperProblems #ClientCommunication #CodingLife #SoftwareEngineering

A keyboard with no "Ctrl" key. It’s like giving a developer a car without wheels. 🚗💨
#GiftsThatShouldNeverBeGifted #DeveloperProblems #UnwantedGifts

A "404 Not Found" t-shirt to a developer who’s been debugging for 6 hours straight. They already feel lost enough. 😅 #DeveloperProblems #CodingLife #GiftsThatShouldNeverBeGifted #Arahimx

you now that feeling when filling a car with gas, trying to stop the numbers on a flat dollar amount?

that, but with free tiers of GCP #developerproblems

When you launch a new feature, the first feedback is, "Facebook already has this." 😳🙈
That’s an awkward moment for developers... 😂
#DevLife #TechHumor #AwkwardMoments #Coding #WebDev #DeveloperProblems #FunnyMemes

That moment when you inherited a pile of spaghetti code and you said you'd only refactor enough just to understand what was happening but now that you've reorganized a bit and started developing, you realize you're going to end up rewriting 75% of the app.... :blobsweats:

#dev #webdev #developer #developerproblems #spaghetticode #cleancode #development #typescript #react #refactoring #openClosedPrinciple #solid #functionalprogramming #oop #objectorientedprograming #computers #IT #programming

BOSIO'S RULE (unless someone else already claimed it): In every development project there will be at least 1 file intended for local development customization that has been committed to the repo, requiring you to remember not to commit your changes.

#GitProblems #DeveloperProblems

Testing multi-threaded code ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVFgI_F4R7Y

#developer #code #coding #devlife #developerproblems

Ever spent hours debugging, only to realize the error was a missing semicolon? Yeah, me neither... 😅 #DeveloperProblems #CodeHumor #weber_man

Debugging is like solving a mystery where you're the detective, the witness, and the suspect—all at the same time. #DeveloperProblems #CodingFun

[curses in a combination of caching and race condition]

#DeveloperProblems

Why would valgrind with `--inclusive=yes` say that a function used 30% of the time but a graph visualisation that also seems to do inclusive timing (breaking it into each child leg) only shows 2.5% of the time in the same function and the things it calls? 🤨

And which do I trust? It makes optimising a little difficult if you don't know where to focus!

#Linux #debugging #DeveloperProblems #Valgrind

Feeling like a code detective today, trying to debug this quirky piece of software like 🕵️‍♂️🔍 But seriously, who let the bugs out? 😩 #DebuggingAdventures #CodeQuirks #CodingLife #DeveloperProblems #WhereIsTheBug #NeedASherlockHolmesOfCode

fighting SSL certs this morning. what else is new.... #DeveloperProblems

am i having fun automating? yes, but no #NeedTestsToPass #DeveloperProblems

TFW When you leave yourself the comment

// cross that bridge when we get to it

And you get to that bridge...

#developer #DeveloperProblems #FullStackDeveloper #WebDeveloper #WebDevelopment #Web #Javascript

The hardest part about being a multilingual or full-stack developer is remembering the else if syntax structure of all the shit you work with...

if/else if/else
if/elseif/else
if/elsif/else

Still not working, oh sorry, end if...

It's bad enough jumping between JavaScript and PL/pgSQL, can't wait to add Python to the mix one day 😘

#developer #DeveloperProblems #FullStackDeveloper #WebDeveloper #WebDevelopment #Web

AFAF

Is wasting an hour debugging an event handler that wasn't firing, before realising that you were just clicking the wrong button, about the right time to call it a day for working in 2022? 🤦🏻‍♂️

#WebDeveloper #WebDevelopment #Developer #Development #DeveloperProblems