The Day I Tried To Ship - Ron Northrip
2025-07-22
Music, Dev Life
To the tune of The Day I Tried To Live by Soundgarden.
I woke the same
as any other day
except a voice was in my head
It said, "Ship today
Pull the trigger
push to prod
and watch the servers spin
The day I tried to ship
I picked a thousand lines of code
And billed the client it, yeah
The day I tried to ship
I pushed with force to many branches
And let the servers spin, yeah
Singing one more merge to go (I might pull it)
One more merge to go (Re-base it)
One more merge to go (I might pull it)
One more merge to go (Re-base it)
The day I tried to ship, yeah
The tests we make
Never seem to live up to the code inside your head
Our mocks are lame
Never seem to ever get us anywhere but failed
The day I tried to ship
I wallowed in the tails and logs
And watched the servers spin, hey
Singing one more merge to go (I might pull it)
One more merge to go (Re-base it)
One more merge to go (I might pull it)
One more merge to go (Re-base it)
The day I tried to ship, yeah
I tried
I woke the same
as any other day
you know I
should have stayed in bed
Eh-hey
The day I tried to ship
I wallowed in the tails and logs
And watched the servers spin, hey
And I learned that I could hack (one more merge to go)
I learned that I could hack (one more merge to go)
I learned that I could hack (one more merge to go)
I learned that I could hack (one more merge to go)
Singing one more merge to go (I might pull it)
One more merge to go (Re-base it)
One more merge to go (I might pull it)
One more merge to go (Re-base it)
The day I tried to ship, yeah
Just like you
Just like you
One more merge to go (One more merge to go)
One more merge to go (One more merge to go)