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For developers in similar situations, where the corporate overlords make your life miserable; use dead man’s triggers Instead of a simple killswitch: manually start handling certificates, introduce memory leaks that you can easily clear, have excessive disk filling logs that you can daily clear, and all kinds of other stuff that is a perpetual dumpster fire that you extinguish as part of your job. Oh, and don’t forget to forget commenting and documenting. The next developer should instantly learn the pressure they have been putting on you.

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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Errr

That’s EXACTLY why I did that in the past. It wasn’t an accident at all. Nope. It was future proofing my job. Completely intentional.

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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So I’ve done plenty of that in my, ahem, practice. And honestly if I had a choice to concentrate and not do that, even if that meant losing my “dead man’s triggers”, then so be it. Extinguishing a perpetual dumpster fire as part of your job is not good. Also someone might be given that to fix after you leave, I’ve been in that role too.

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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about

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- x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Well the guy from the article is named David Lu and added a function with the name IsDLEnabledinAD. That by itself deserves an article.
  
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quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You’re an asshole

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- x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I have been burned out by project managers way too hard to have any respect for the capitalist tech world. I have 15 years of programming experience yet I’m literally looking for a job on a farm or warehouse.
  
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- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  yes, you’re right, we should always bend over and spread pu cheeks to appease our corporate overlords no matter the situation
  
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  - quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    He’s an asshole to the Dev that is hired to cleanup his mess, not to the evil company
    
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    Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That Dev should know how evil the company is as soon as possible though.
    
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- morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They’re not saying to do this at any/every job, just shitty ones with shitty people
  
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