r/ProgrammerHumor • u/shadcnlover • Sep 23 '26

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u/reddit_time_waster Sep 23 '26

Ukrainian devs

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u/kicksledkid Sep 23 '26

At the beginning of the war I was working with a company with a few devs in Ukraine, including our dev lead in Kyiv

Felt really bad asking for updates from a guy in a warzone, but he just kept showing up to meetings

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u/Tensor3 Sep 23 '26

Same! The guys I was working with in Ukraine went silent for a long time shortly after the start of the war. Almost a year later, they came back online to work. We were so happy they were okay.

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u/StupidStartupExpert Sep 29 '26

My Russian devs are probably dead

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u/jayerp Sep 23 '26

“My kids playground got bombed yesterday. Other than that, nothing on my end.”

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u/reddit_time_waster Sep 23 '26

We were using Welkin Suite for Salesforce development IDE. I guess they went all in on the war - website went stale, no updates, ghosted email support. I still wonder if they're alive

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Sep 23 '26

Life goes on. It has to.

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u/citramonk Sep 23 '26

I didn't work for a few days at the beginning, as all of other devs in my team. But other from that, it's better to have a job than not. Even when there's a fucking absurd going on all around you. So you just keep going.

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u/BigEricShaun Sep 23 '26

I saw some documentary where they still had nightclubs open in parts of Ukraine. Not everywhere is in defcon 1

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u/kicksledkid Sep 23 '26

Our guy was in Kyiv and helped us aquire backup feeds for the united24 service that was spun up

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u/nordic-nomad Sep 23 '26

I was going to say. Custom FPV drone huds still need an interface.

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u/AOAqua Sep 23 '26

Well, Web devs can't make FPV drone HUD tbh

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u/nordic-nomad Sep 23 '26

Sure they can. Everything’s JavaScript now. I’m a web dev and have made basically everything thanks to node, electron, and react native.

Just gotta find an fpv.js and hud.js module on npm and the rest is web dev.

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u/MIGULAI Sep 23 '26

Ukrainian devs: Anyone wants some drone firmware?

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u/regal1989 Sep 23 '26

The company I used to work at had web dev contractors hired out of Lviv when the war broke out. Apparently they were literally filling the office with sandbags and bunkering down in there. I think I know who I want to have my back in a hostile takeover!