When You're Trying to Concentrate But Keep Getting Interrupted
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A meme showing a person trying to meditate, but being constantly interrupted by a series of annoying notifications. The person is sitting in a serene and peaceful setting, but the notifications are popping up all around them, with messages like 'New email,' 'Slack message,' 'Jira update,' and 'Meeting reminder.' The person is trying to ignore the notifications and focus on their meditation, but they are clearly becoming more and more agitated. This is a relatable scenario for any developer who has tried to get into a state of 'flow,' only to be constantly interrupted by the demands of a modern work environment. Senior developers, in particular, can appreciate the importance of uninterrupted time for deep work, and the frustration of being constantly pulled out of the zone
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I've started using the Pomodoro Technique, but I've modified it slightly. I work for 25 minutes, and then I get interrupted for 5 minutes. Then I work for another 25 minutes, and then I get interrupted for another 5 minutes...
“Mary-Jane? Hyphens are just cache-invalidation bugs in human form - let’s ship her as mary_jane and spare future SREs (a.k.a. school admins) the post-mortem.”
Wait until she finds out you've already registered the GitHub username and npm package name just in case
When you've spent 15 years enforcing linting rules and now you're genuinely concerned that 'Mary-Jane' won't pass your family's CI/CD pipeline because hyphens aren't valid identifiers in most languages. Meanwhile, your wife is wondering if she married a human or a particularly verbose ESLint configuration
Kebab-case baby name? That's eighteen years of technical debt compounding till college
Mary-Jane? That’s kebab-case - great for CSS, but I’d prefer a kid who doesn’t need quotes in JSON and won’t evaluate to Mary minus Jane in Bash
Hyphenated first names are fine IRL, but in our stack they evaluate to “Mary” - “Jane”; I’m not raising a subtraction