Memory is overrated

the_artic_one@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 521 points –
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This is terrible! What half-witted shit-for-brains monkey crapped this craptacular crapfest out?! I swear to Kaballah Monster, as soon as I figure out...

git blame

...oh.

I've been at this for almost thirty years. At this point, I've forgotten more than I have ever learned.

Clean code, extensive documentation, help files and readmes aren’t supposed to prevent you from forgetting how it works. I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me with the second half of this meme.

That you're taking things too seriously. It's a meme not a dissertation.

That's the whole point of documentation, to know how it works AFTER you forget it

I have a repo with another repo inside it which was the one deployed. I forgot how all of it worked and wasted like 4 hours combined. Definetly gonna write docs from now on.

And after the 1000 page manual some fuck goes "oh, Bob never documents anything!"