This document is intended to be a semi-sarcastic extension of CB (civilian band) 10-codes for cut rate communications for software development teams. Some inspiration was also received from here (Warning: Language on the linked document).
This document is a work in progress; codes may change without notice until finalized.
Nothing obscene, profane or offensive. Pull requests supported.
10-101: "As it Turns Out..." euphemism for "unfortunately"
10-102: Broken or improperly created virtual machine
10-103: Broken physical machine
10-104: Shared development resource (such as a source control server or a issue tracker) is down
10-105: Code is compiling, so I am slacking off.
10-106: Tests are running, so I am slacking off
10-107: It works on my machine
10-108: How did this ever work? / This shouldn't work.
10-109: B0rked. Broken. Not working. Botched.
10-110: Race condition
10-111: Data corruption
10-112: Developer is sleep deprived
10-113: Zombie apocalypse
10-114: Computer is on fire or emitting magic smoke
10-115: Who wrote this code?
10-116: Need unit test
10-117: Computer fire is spreading; attempting to push my latest work
10-118: Project delayed due to circling sharks or sharknado
10-119: Need to reboot; may not return online
10-120: How about now?; Try it again
10-121: Brain not working, please try again later
10-122: This is not a drill...
10-123: Data center overheating
10-124: Robot Revolution
10-125: Employee accidentally fired due to paperwork error
10-126: Heads down writing code; Also known as: "Leave me alone, I am being productive"
10-127: Permission denied
10-128: Working remotely, not in office
10-129: Awaiting code review, so I am slacking off
10-130: Request denied: Payment required
10-131: Request denied: Unrealistic requirements and/or deadlines
10-132: Are you an AI? See 10-132
10-133: Developer is over-caffeinated
10-134: Developer is under-caffeinated
10-135: Cosmic ray flipped bit in RAM or hard drive (actual/confirmed)
10-136: Cosmic ray flipped bit in RAM or hard drive (we have no idea what happened, so we are blaming it on cosmic rays)
10-137: System possessed (electrical)
10-138: System possessed (unconfirmed demonic)
10-139: System possessed (confirmed demonic)
10-140: Problem exists between keyboard and chair
10-141: Firewall is overzealous
10-142: Security requirements make operational requirements irrelevant
10-143: Out of coffee
10-144: Performance Tests Gone Wild; System Unavailable
10-145: Loading please wait...
10-146: Three finger salute required, call operations.
10-147: Operator head space is out of adjustment.
10-148: $TARGET suffers from anal cranial inversion, ignored.
10-149: Implementation correct, requirements wrong.
10-150: Progress is like attempting to hit an Olympic Gymnast with a Wal-Mart Paint Gun.
10-151: Programmer highly and strongly discourages this action, however...
10-152: Simply walked into Mordor
10-153: Upon the advice of our lawyers, we have decided to invoke our 5th Amendment Rights. We regret any inconvenience.
10-154: Hold my beer and watch this! (Useful for deploying to production)
10-155: Fire me if'n you dare! (Useful for breaking rules, but know that it is for the best.)
10-156: Programmer nullification -- A programmer refuses to implement a feature on principle.
10-157: We/I believe the programmer that wrote this code was chemically altered at the time of development. Often used with 10-115.