35 points yedhukrishnan 54 minutes ago 4 comments

tombert 11 minutes ago | parent

Tangential, but very early in my career, back when I was still using SVN at work, I used to write all my commits in either limerick or haiku, usually smuggling in some curse word(s) with some cheeky message in there. I was convinced that no one actually read them and I could get a laugh out of it.

I did this for months without anyone noticing, and eventually my manager schedules a very awkward meeting asking me why I wrote saying “cfquery fucking blows sometimes”. I had to sheepishly explain that I thought it was funny and then I stopped doing that and my commits became much more utilitarian and much less fun.

blmarket 5 minutes ago | parent

I would encourage to speak up - especially when we're blaming bad code(not a person) being bad. Ultimately senior engineers are ones who can blame bad things with a compelling reason.

Happy to read good reasoning why it's fucking blow-up.

FLeXMurphy 9 minutes ago | parent

This has been a topic belabored since commit messages were a thing. CVS? RCS? Probably earlier.