>Killing time doing PR reviews for some smaller webshit repos at work.>Every since fucking repo, without fail, has uses 3 different code formatting/linting tools, a bunch of pre-commit hooks, configuration management tools, and an absolute fucking rats nest of dependency management.>All of this for what amounts to, not accounting for boilerplate, probably like < 600 lines of code.Fucking WHY?! What the FUCK is wrong with webshitters?
>>101581423Justifiable busywork
>>101581445It's insane, man. It's just office clerical work at this point. I understand having build tools and other little helper utilities to manage larger code bases, but this is beyond excessive. I can't imagine my company is the only place like this.
>>101581423Why are you doing pointless busy work reviewing PRs for tiny code bases?
>>101581530Y not
>>101581423Most likely copypasted from a larger project. Who cares, and why would you ‘kill time’ doing pointless busywork?
>>101581471When companies get big enough it gets hard to track what individual employees are doing, naturally the employees learn to game the system.At the extremes you can have people getting payroll for years without being assigned any work.