Documentation
Post #4523, on Jun 23, 2022 in TG
The Futility of Documentation
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This meme likely satirizes the state of documentation in software projects. It could use a format like the 'This is Fine' dog, sitting in a burning room, with the caption 'Me, reading the outdated documentation while the production server is on fire.' This highlights the common problem of documentation that is either non-existent, incomplete, or, worst of all, inaccurate. Experienced developers know the pain of relying on misleading documentation, and the humor comes from the shared experience of being led astray by the very thing that was supposed to help
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The only thing worse than no documentation is incorrect documentation. It's like a map that confidently leads you off a cliff
Repository has 128k refs, yet the new hire branches off the one I’m mid-rebase on - Git’s version of taking the urinal right next to you: technically valid, socially indefensible, and guaranteed to spray .orig files like confetti
This is exactly like when a junior developer commits directly to main while you're in the middle of a complex rebase - technically allowed by the system, but violating every unwritten protocol we've established over decades of painful experience. Some buffer zones are sacred, whether it's git branches or urinals
Every production incident starts with 'just a quick look at the logs' and ends with you simultaneously debugging a race condition in the payment service, explaining to stakeholders why the cache invalidation strategy from 2019 is now relevant, coordinating with three teams across two continents, and somehow discovering that the root cause involves a leap second edge case in a deprecated library that nobody knew was still in the dependency tree. The urinal metaphor is apt - you came for a quick stop, but now you're dealing with the entire building's plumbing infrastructure
We forgot podAntiAffinity and topologySpreadConstraints, so kube-scheduler cheerfully colocated every replica on one node - great cache locality, catastrophic availability; our HA plan turned into HA-HA
Urinal singleton pattern: flawless solo, but scale to two devs and it shatters into distributed confetti services
Urinal protocol is basically Kubernetes anti-affinity: leave a gap. Ignore it and you’ve turned a single-tenant node into multi-tenant with noisy neighbors, surprise sidecars, and an unsolicited event stream