• A_Porcupine@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    As a software engineer, annoying bugs that should be so simple to fix are so frustrating! I wish I could just have a crack and fixing it myself!

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      3 hours ago

      Whenever I feel like this I think back to how many of those “simple” bugs I’ve had to fix in my own code and how many years it took off my life expectancy and feel a little connection with the poor developer who is probably currently losing their hair over this too

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        4 hours ago

        Unfortunately my bank, government, national health, surgery, local shops, food delivery services, etc. don’t open source their code. It’d be nice if they did however.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 hours ago

        True open source software runs on frustrated developers

        But yeah, that is a really nice part of FOSS. I have myself been in situations where I just went and fixed a big myself because it annoyed me lol