Question: Looking for a gif/video - programmer's life played by handyman

update: this is the clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0 Many thanks to @Krill.

Good day everyone! A long time ago, while working as a full-time programmer, I saw a short funny clip that I could totally identify with and that brilliantly described what daily frustrations programmes face in a way that non-programmers could understand. Description below. Thing is, I was unable to find it since and it frustrates me to no end and is hampering my ability to describe programming work to other people. Though I no longer program for a living, so I should not care. Anyway.

Video description (vague, from failing memory): A handyman reaches for his equipment but finds out it is not plugged in, so he reaches for the plug, only to find it broken. He proceeds to get the replacement / fix from the drawer but its handle breaks and stays in his hand. Bang, final title: the daily life of a programmer.

Or something like that. Please help.

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Krill@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Do you mean one of the intros to malcolm in the middle S03E06 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

daddy32@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Hahaha, totally nothing like I described it, but yes, this is the original clip. Thank you!

zevdg@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 2y

Debugging code: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4930p8/when_debugging_code/
Credit to: We Bare Bears

UX design: https://youtu.be/baY3SaIhfl0?si=3AWXgCabjIEn_4T
Credit to: Alison Burke

Systems engineering: https://goomics.net/106/
Credit to: Manu Cornet