Thoughts on Engineering. And Coffee.
As the pandemic has changed our life- and work-styles, unfortunately some things got dropped like the creation of calm-inducing workplace haiku. No longer! The wonderful world of workplace haiku is back. Please enjoy these remote work moments of zen.
No software is ever perfect. Bugs always exist. Software Engineers do their best to minimize bugs as much as possible, but sometimes we just have issues that we have to deal with in software. To commemorate the ubiquitous bug, here are a collection of buggy software haiku for your reading edification. Enjoy! bug in the softwareteeny, tiny, little bugthe server is down-KW beautiful designlots of features and buttonsone bug, sad user-KW big presentationlots of executives thereapplication crash-KW developer wishjust one day without a bugmaybe then happy-KW someday when bugs pastI will walk outside againin daylight, no moon-KW my task list is fullI have ninety-nine problemsand they are all bugs-KW
Meetings. The scourge of the business workplace. The necessary evil that sucks up time and people. The black hole of early morning and after lunch sleepy people and never ending powerpoint slides. Here are some haiku to commemorate these wonderful time sinks.
We finally made it! 5 long days deep down in the salt mines to make it to the two wonderful days of freedom and independence: the weekend. Here are some haiku reflecting on and celebrating this weekly milestone. Enjoy!
As the days grow colder and the coffee steam rises from the cup, here are some nice and fresh haiku to keep you entertained while the leaves fall outside.
Here are some fresh and hot coffee haiku for your morning edification.
How about some Halloween themed haiku to start this morning off right? This is day 2 of getting back into writing haiku and the rust is flaking off pretty quickly – I am pretty proud of the second day effort! With one week to go before Halloween I hope you have your costume ready! Engineer costumesBut no candy given outToo many red shirts -KW Pumpkin spice coding?New bugs adding lots of tricksMust compile treats! -KW Spooky EngineersNo, wait, just office lights offCode in dark silence -KW
When you are able to work someplace where you can have some fun with the people you work with you usually end up coming up with inside jokes and other fun things to do. Along with the previously discussed “pop time” one of the things that we did in my first full engineering job was to write workplace haiku. I am still searching for the lists of haiku that we wrote those many, many years ago and if I find them then I will work on posting some of the better ones. However, this blog gives me an ability to resurrect my haiku skills and attempt to create a couple of haiku per week. Now you may be asking yourself – why haiku? Actually, let’s take a step back and first cover: what is haiku? According to wikipedia, haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that is structured over 17…
