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The Agony of Technical Debt: A Developer's Struggle

cartoon of a woman with a bleeding arm and a man with knives stabbing his back, relating coding pain

A meme about the struggles of coding, specifically denormalized databases, poor MVC logic, and technical debt

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Language: 🇺🇸 EN
Tags: #code-review #developer-life #devops #legacy-code #senior-dev #technical-debt
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Posted: 2022-02-04

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