--- title: Who wrote this shit? | daily.dev description: It is a beautiful rite of passage for a junior developer to join a team, take some tasks full of enthusiasm, and have the life and joy sucked out of them one... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Who wrote this shit? | daily.dev og:description: It is a beautiful rite of passage for a junior developer to join a team, take some tasks full of enthusiasm, and have the life and joy sucked out of them one... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jYY2UpFjh.png og:image:alt: Who wrote this shit? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Who wrote this shit? **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 327 upvotes · 27 comments ## Summary It is a beautiful rite of passage for a junior developer to join a team, take some tasks full of enthusiasm, and have the life and joy sucked out of them one sprint at a time. Trashing legacy software is fun. It creates camaraderie. Who wrote this? What were they thinking? Looking at the commit log showed names that meant nothing to me. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@duplicated** · 6 upvotes > The best one is when git lens shows your name in some obscure project that you haven't touched in forever lol. **@jrnash** · 6 upvotes > I loved this short post! Short and sweet. **@phaeton** · 3 upvotes > Well at least they will not say "who wrote this shit" about your article, nicely written, well done **@disturbedslime** · 2 upvotes > Why is this post talking about me? :) **@napsuyt** · 2 upvotes > LOL ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#logging](https://daily.dev/tags/logging) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Who wrote this shit?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh"},"datePublished":"2022-01-10T19:12:20.763Z","dateModified":"2022-01-10T19:12:20.769Z","description":"It is a beautiful rite of passage for a junior developer to join a team, take some tasks full of enthusiasm, and have the life and joy sucked out of them one...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a918e389a7cc4f61d9ea174df8b4cb30","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a918e389a7cc4f61d9ea174df8b4cb30","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":27,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":327},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":27}],"keywords":"logging","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Who wrote this shit?"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/who-wrote-this-shit--jyy2upfjh","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"The best one is when git lens shows your name in some obscure project that you haven’t touched in forever lol.","datePublished":"2022-01-11T04:58:14.087Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jYY2UpFjh#c-oL7OW3FH5","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"R Chan","url":"https://daily.dev/duplicated","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/3392880?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I loved this short post! Short and sweet.","datePublished":"2022-01-10T22:54:53.712Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jYY2UpFjh#c-Ah9saMU_9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Nash ","url":"https://daily.dev/jrnash","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/24966344?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Well at least they will not say “who wrote this shit” about your article, nicely written, well done","datePublished":"2022-01-12T12:31:03.170Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jYY2UpFjh#c-TD9tIO-Rm","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marcos Brigante","url":"https://daily.dev/phaeton","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14Gg1qAouCt-qb74q_fhiOnnnWL9Sn9410ZrLKrq6rvU=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Why is this post talking about me? :)","datePublished":"2022-01-11T09:39:34.198Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jYY2UpFjh#c-JcZkEf-Mq","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Emil Pelloso","url":"https://daily.dev/disturbedslime","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GjUOB9lRQnqfDAwZDRxkI8nKwYwZcB1F8E22oEVZg=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"LOL","datePublished":"2022-01-11T01:38:16.932Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jYY2UpFjh#c-H_nV3WGGc","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yannick Napsuciale","url":"https://daily.dev/napsuyt","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/32018824?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}]} ```