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by gw99 1353 days ago
I spent most of 2005-2013 doing contract work getting people out of near business ending buckets of shit thanks to the PHP community's inability to produce a product that was fit for purpose and the awful staff contracting building on top of the wobbly pillars of excrement. Slither is exactly the word because they were the first people to slither away and point fingers elsewhere when something was wrong. Now ten years after that I am in regular contact with people actively getting rid of it and it's the same problems. And here I am now on Sunday evening eviscerating another failed nodejs stack left by the same slithering fiends.

Oh no it's exactly right. Slithering is the word.

I don't get anywhere near this level of sheer incompetence on a daily basis in the Python, .Net or Go ecosystems. Nor do I have problems sleeping wondering what shit show am I going to face on a Monday morning with them.

2 comments

You sound like a fun guy. Enjoy.
8 years of contracting work and this bad of an outlook on the community, maybe you didn’t charge enough?
I was being paid large amounts of danger money to undo damage.