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What are your top three everyday pain points as a developer?

Ben Halpern on May 11, 2022

This is the third post of the Mayfield + DEV Discussion series. Please feel free to go back and answer previous questions as well.

Be as detailed as you like when answering this question.

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Bas Steins •
  1. Missing Documentation
  2. Meetings that should have been an emai
  3. misused JIRA

Plus, depending on the client:

  1. restricted environments (proxies, VPNs, ...) that just standing in the way rather than provide extra security
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Ben Halpern •

I'm curious about specifics regarding misued JIRA.

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Bas Steins •

Well, I've seen any sorts of this in the wild:

  • Tickets are not really tickets, but a trash can for ideas
  • Overcomplicated workflow configuration
  • Tickets referencing documents elsewhere ("I've posted that in slack" - "sure you did, but when and where?")
  • misconfigured integrations with deployment pipelines
  • ...
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Kei Koyama •

I'm curious about the restricted environments. What specific issues have you run into? Are they all client-side?

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Lucas Perez •

Back, head and wrist.

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MiguelMJ •
  1. Undocumented code
  2. Unclear priorities
  3. Dealing with non technical problems like burocracy or users that don't read the manual
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Jonathan Apodaca •
  1. Not prioritizing developer experience
  2. Premature optimization
  3. Code that is not strongly typed
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Edmund Gomes •

Bio Freeze... Spray it on pain is gone!! Its magic(I should trade mark that lol)... This is obviously a quick fix and doesn't cure the root issue... sitting in the same position for hours on end.. you have to move and stretch

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benbenlol •

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DevFranPR •
  1. Working on projects with deprecated software/technologies.
  2. Not having enough things automated.
  3. Being forced to use Windows as work OS.
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Bobo Brussels •
  1. Flakey tests
  2. Dependencies
  3. Meetings
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Andrew Baisden •
  1. Too many meetings (distractions)
  2. Unclear briefs that lack details
  3. Short deadlines that leads to poor code quality and lack of test coverage
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Arika O •

Back pain x 3 😂

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Christian • • Edited
  1. Daily standups
  2. Jira, even if well used
  3. Clients who do not understand the real priorities, this can really kill projects
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Uriel Bitton • • Edited

Receiving unclean or inefficient code from developers. #1 most annoying thing to deal with.

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Supportic • • Edited

Cache
pushing commits just to revert them later
facing merges instead of rebases