When the client says: 'Design it however you want,' and you actually do

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The meme shows a single narrow multi-storey townhouse whose façade is an impossible jumble of jutting boxes, slanted beams and randomly angled windows. Every window opening points in a different direction, giving the building an absurd, Escher-like appearance. The top caption, written in bold black text on white, reads: "When asked to make a design at your discretion." A small watermark "t.me/dev_meme" with a troll face appears at the bottom. Visually, the house embodies what happens when requirements are left vague - an architectural anti-pattern that mirrors software systems built without clear specs, stakeholder alignment or UX guidelines

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Micro-frontends after a year of ‘total dev autonomy’: every window a different framework, all cantilevered off one load-bearing TODO in main

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Micro-frontends after a year of ‘total dev autonomy’: every window a different framework, all cantilevered off one load-bearing TODO in main
Anonymous

This is what happens when the architect uses the same design pattern we use for microservices - every component doing its own thing with no coordination, eventual consistency be damned, and the facade layer trying desperately to make it all look intentional
Anonymous

This is what happens when the product owner says 'just make it work' without acceptance criteria, the architect is on vacation, and you're given admin access to production. Every window is a different microservice, each balcony represents a separate team's interpretation of the requirements, and that roof? That's the technical debt we'll 'fix in the next sprint.' At least it compiles... structurally speaking
Anonymous

This is what you get when every squad ships its own micro‑frontend with absolute positioning and no design system - eventually consistent windows, zero agreed‑upon door
Anonymous

“At your discretion” architecture: one giant Facade with fourteen inconsistent windows, two write-only ports, and a door implemented as a Kafka topic - great until you discover leaving requires a saga
Anonymous

Full discretion in architecture: the CAP theorem equivalent - pick two: plumb, square, or habitable
@dugeru42 5y

It needs glitches
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y

im almost sure that the joke is that from some point of view this house looks okay'ish
1. @dugeru42 5y
  
  From second underground floor
@AuroraStudio 5y

когда UI на бутстрапе)
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  please speak english, good sir warning 1/3 for @AuroraStudio
  
  @AuroraStudio 5y
  
  no
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  …then go somewhere else
  
  @AuroraStudio 5y
  
  вы че запрещаете писать на родном мне языке? совсем чтоли
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  warning 2/3 for @AuroraStudio I could also write in german, but we're trying to communicate so that everyone understands it. This is an english-speaking chat, because we're trying to make it accessible to non-russians.
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  are you retarded btw
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  no, are you?
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  i am not thank you
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  then behave that way
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  If you know programming then we expect you to know that speaking same language is critical for maintaining good SNR.
  
  @AuroraStudio 5y
  
  i have a bad grammatics, anyway warnings because of language are not ok
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  You never chatted in non-ru chat before, did you?
  
  @AuroraStudio 5y
  
  99% members here are russian lol
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  that's literally the only thing we give warnings for. And warnings are there to warn you, not to punish you.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  and it's fine if your grammar isn't good. Mine isn't either.
  
  @QUAKEKING 5y
  
  so trolling is allowed right??
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I never said I'd not ban you
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  (but yes, in moderation)
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  There is no one who could stop you from trolling, probably the only way to get banned except non-English messages is flooding
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  and posting ads
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Let's just say that spamming isn't allowed
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  aye
  
  @QUAKEKING 5y
  
  wouldn't it be good if you put the rules on the description of the group??
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  I mean, when you join group where all messages written using English
  
  @QUAKEKING 5y
  
  flawless
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  If I had choice to ban either trolling or dumb people i'd choose to ban dumb people.
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Imagine situation when you work with your team, half of which doesn't speak Russian even a bit. And during one of meetings you just refuse to use English and use Russian instead. Half of team understand you. For half of team it's boring and they simply have no idea what you are talking about
  
  @AuroraStudio 5y
  
  THIS IS MEMES
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  English chats are my only source of practice in this language, please don't ruin them :D Just try talking, it's great
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  I think, that everybody crazy enough to not learn Russian should firstly get a punishment and then learn it, cause russian is language of gods
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  dunno, i think we have enough slaves for our Great King of Thieves
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  is there an option to forget russian?
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  when Russians will seize the world, you'll not have any option about Russian except learning it
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  я знаю російську, але я не хочу знати її i know russian, but i don't want to know it
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  forgot to ask hohol
  
  @NiKryukov 5y
  
  +
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  if*
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  it will happen, trust me
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  i will allow it only if it will be Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  oh, gays will be everywhere, trust me
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  that phrase seems familiar…
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  papular thing with books and such
  
  @NiKryukov 5y
  
  Our emperor's last name is literally put in
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  i remember a movie, it's called "gayniggers from outer space"
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  haa I found what this reminded me of: https://pixelcanvas.io/@-903,-663
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  is this infinite?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  pixelcanvas.io? yes.
  
  @TERASKULL 5y
  
  another clown
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  also people here mostly use this channel's chat, not comments so your russian messages are appearing in english conversations and not only "just under one meme"
  
  @b4dapp13 5y
  
  Чё будет если 3/3 набить?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  please speak english. Even if asking for rules. When you have 3 warnings, nothing happens. But when you break the rule once more after that, I'll ban you. If people are nice to me, I can let some things slide, but so far almost everyone has reacted very violently to getting warned. And no, warnings that are already given won't be removed unless given in error (like the one time where I accidentally warned someone because of a religious phrase; they could've reacted better to the warning, but börgar made me aware of the misunderstanding. anyway, I'll stop rambling lol) warning 1/3 for @antoxa428.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  Rules should be added to the group description
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  tell that to @Linegel, I can't change the description. (but yes, I'm on board with that)
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  I'd say that if there are no rules easily accessible (public), then there are should be no penalties applied.
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  I'd say that's why I warn people first.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  Nah, I include warning into penalty
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  warnings aren't a penalty though
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  What happens when one gets 3 warnings?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  after 3 warnings, you get one last chance, and after that it's ban time.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  So that's w penalty
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  y e s, but after breaking the rules 4 times, after getting warned 3 times, I think it's justified, no?
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  As long as there are no public rules, then you can only ask people to be nice
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  the warnings serve as a reminder of the rules
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  i would say seeing 1/3 is rather anxious
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  understandable, but that's the effect I want to convey with those warnings. So they stop speaking russian here.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  Then add group rules to the description, then apply them
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  as I said, @Linegel is admin. I'm just a moderator.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  Right So rules first, warnings next
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  bro, the rules are already rock solid. I'm not gonna stop enforcing them just because they're not easily visible to everyone. As I said, PM him if it's important to you. Otherwise, he'll read this conversation eventually.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  Ok, if there are rock solid rules, where can I read them?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  every hour or so when I tell someone to stop speaking russian.
  
  @DefDef 5y
  
  So then just add rules to the description
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  bro
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y

But that was not question for you. :)
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  ahhh sorry
@beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y

ahahha
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  same username coloration, I didn't look hard enough
Deleted Account 5y

Old
1. @QUAKEKING 5y
  
  like your mom
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  I think like your dad
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  @admin
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  what's the matter?
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  he just likes your mom, dude
@AuroraStudio 5y

WTF
Deleted Account 5y

Ban him first and ban me
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  He's could be you father is some parallel universe
@RiedleroD 5y

bro
@FLIPFL0P_T 5y

what... did the architect smoke?
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  more like what didn't he smoke?
Deleted Account 5y

thank god i'm not moskal' glory to ukraine glory to heroes
1. @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  Ukraine was a mistake
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  moskovia was a mistake

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