What are your top three everyday pain points as a developer?

This is the third post of the Mayfield + DEV Discussion series. Please feel free to go back and answer previous questions as well.

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[Bas Steins]

1. Missing Documentation
2. Meetings that should have been an emai
3. misused JIRA

Plus, depending on the client:

1. restricted environments (proxies, VPNs, ...) that just standing in the way rather than provide extra security

[Ben Halpern]

I'm curious about specifics regarding misued JIRA.

[Bas Steins]

Well, I've seen any sorts of this in the wild:

• Tickets are not really tickets, but a trash can for ideas
• Overcomplicated workflow configuration
• Tickets referencing documents elsewhere ("I've posted that in slack" - "sure you did, but when and where?")
• misconfigured integrations with deployment pipelines
• ...

[Kei Koyama]

I'm curious about the restricted environments. What specific issues have you run into? Are they all client-side?

[Lucas Perez]

Back, head and wrist.

[MiguelMJ]

1. Undocumented code
2. Unclear priorities
3. Dealing with non technical problems like burocracy or users that don't read the manual

[Jonathan Apodaca]

1. Not prioritizing developer experience
2. Premature optimization
3. Code that is not strongly typed

[Edmund Gomes]

Bio Freeze... Spray it on pain is gone!! Its magic(I should trade mark that lol)... This is obviously a quick fix and doesn't cure the root issue... sitting in the same position for hours on end.. you have to move and stretch

[benbenlol]

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[DevFranPR]

1. Working on projects with deprecated software/technologies.
2. Not having enough things automated.
3. Being forced to use Windows as work OS.

[Bobo Brussels]

1. Flakey tests
2. Dependencies
3. Meetings

[Andrew Baisden]

1. Too many meetings (distractions)
2. Unclear briefs that lack details
3. Short deadlines that leads to poor code quality and lack of test coverage

[Arika O]

Back pain x 3 😂