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Got an email from a dev from another division that basically said "I don't know how to do my job. Can you do it for me?"

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November 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Kristian Duske Built TrenchBroom So He Could Make Quake Maps Again. He Never Made Another One.

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October 27, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Kristian Duske Built TrenchBroom So He Could Make Quake Maps Again. He Never Made Another One.

https://lockergnome.com/trenchbroom-quake-map-editor-maker-never-made-another-map/

#devtales #quake #leveldesign #opensource
October 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
One simple request that should have taken the admin 3 clicks to change something has turned into 7 emails and a whole ass Teams conversation.

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October 22, 2026 at 12:22 PM
If you host Microsoft Teams meetings, it is YOUR duty to "End Meeting" so all the dumb dumbs who want to keep chatting afterwards can't. Now I have to look like the asshole by leaving the chat.

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October 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Last and final Part 3, learning to get work by thinking outside the box. #gameindustry #fbackdoor #showyourwork #indiegamedev #devtales
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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May 8, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Instructions to developers:

1. Do your normal stuff here
2. E-mail this DL (mailto link includes default subject and body templates)

Do you:

a. Send message via Teams to a member of DL in step #2
or...

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March 27, 2026 at 8:02 PM
As the proverb goes -

"You can lead a developer to documentation, but you can't make them read it."

So anyway you'll never guess what happened today.

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If I've learned anything in my 16 years of being in the dev space, it's that almost nobody will actually read ANY amount of documentation you prepare for them, especially in a corporate environment.

Most people want to be spoon fed the answer, which is the biggest drain on budget and resources.
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
InfoSec: How does this process run?

Me: From the enterprise scheduler, which runs a script on this server, which runs this git command to fetch the repo

IS: Do you have a diagram?

This is not a joke.

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October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I just love stumbling upon a column in a table that seems to serve no meaningful purpose, and nobody else knows why it's there either.

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October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I don't mean to brag, but I was able to get a meeting with auditors to end 15 minutes early. #devTales
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Dev: I don't have access to the document you shared. It says "Request Access"

Me: tenor.com/view/jack-ni...

Some people...

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August 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
They proceeded to send a SCREENSHOT of the log message (which was still useless).

I don't remember if I've said it here before, but stop sending screenshots of text / log messages when you're asking for help debugging shit, ffs. I can't easily copy/paste text from a screenshot.

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Dev: We're getting an error indicating a certificate issue when trying to connect to this.

*proceeds to not send the actual error message*

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August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Dev: We're getting an error indicating a certificate issue when trying to connect to this.

*proceeds to not send the actual error message*

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August 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Me: If you need to request "", please e-mail my team's DL with "
" so that someone sees it (especially if I'm unavailable).

Dev: Proceeds to send me direct message on Teams.

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May 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Dev: That code change you implemented caused a bunch of the wrong data in this table to get deleted.

Me: That's because you wrote a bad DELETE clause, my process worked exactly as expected.

Dev: ...

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December 2, 2024 at 7:09 PM