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Disengagement In Software Engineering
It’s not all fun and games, vim and tabs, and sending up JavaScript developers — sometimes it can be pretty boring too, but why?
Disengagement is the true enemy of a progressive software engineer in the same way as indifference is the true enemy of a love struck teenager.
It stifles our ambition, dulls our senses, and sucks the very life essence out of our being in much the same way as being forced to use the bloated and uninttuitive monstrosity that is Teams for video calls and so-called ‘collaboration’.
Imagine all of the colour draining out of the world then it slowly filling up with translucent sickly treacle so much so that you can hardly even move, let alone tap at your keys or caress your trackpad. Every single action is an enormous effort — a bit like planning your life (never mind your software project) in Jira with all of the ‘nuances’ that Atlassian’s responsive and intuitive interface has to offer¹.
Symptoms
Classic symptoms may include:
- Staring out of windows
(Unless there’s some kind of coffee tuk-tuk, comedy ice cream truck, or olfactory stimulating burger van pulling up in the car park) - Staring at our phone
(Unless there’s an iOS update, it’s WWDC time, or Tesla has started to recover its share price and…
