These are the 5 worst things any developer could do
Whether you’re a junior developer, or a senior developer with 2 months under your belt, we are all prone to mistakes. Don’t let these happen to you.
5. Commit tax fraud
This is a common mistake I find a lot of junior developers making. Not disclosing your federal tax income has a high cost, and if you want to continue debugging code at your startup, try to avoid it at all costs.
4. Summon the Dark One
Look, we’ve all been there. We’ve spent hours perusing Stack Overflow, countless Google searches, and you just can’t figure out how to find the maximum of two numbers. Summoning the Lord of Eternal Darkness may sound tempting, but your soul is worth far more than that.
3. Forget the Alamo
Unless you want a swarm of angry Texans descending upon you like locusts in the plague, I’d consider sitting this one out. It’s bad enough that you missed the last scrum.
2. Call your ex when your build fails.
I’ve had so many junior developers ask me about this one, but the fact is that they’ve moved on. It might be time for you to as well. I don’t care if your ex wrote the debugger, it’s time to focus on you.
1. Use PHP
It’s 2021, grow up.
