#SoftwareHumor

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-12

๐ŸŽ‰ Oh, the joys of macOS updates! Apparently, that little pop-up window you thought was trustworthy was secretly a compulsive liar. ๐Ÿคฅ So, get ready to dance the update tango, because Apple wants you to trust it, just not too much. ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ
wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/

๐ŸŽ‰ Happy Easter - Show me your Easter eggs :)
I have a 15-year-old homepage with a hidden chat from an old game ๐Ÿ‘‰ yuna.berlin
Guess the game?

Easter: a seasonal reminder that most companies have the imagination of a beige wall.
Letโ€™s talk software Easter eggs โ€“ tiny sparks of joy buried under layers of Jira tickets.

If your product has none?
Congratulations. Your engineers are either chained in the feature factoryโ€ฆ
or your company is too visionless to let them play.

Examples of fun companies:
๐Ÿ Snake while YouTube buffers
๐ŸŽฎ GitHub mobile mini-game
๐Ÿ™ƒ Blame-someone error pages

Your product?
โŒ No dark mode
โŒ No gamification
โŒ No clever errors
โŒ No i18n
โŒ No responsive design
โŒ No joy

But hey, Time to Market, right?
Youโ€™re not innovating. Youโ€™re duct-taping compliance machines.

No Easter eggs = No creative freedom
No themed UI = No empathy
No jokes = No soul
No dev input = No ownership

Youโ€™re not building software.
Youโ€™re crafting digital despair.

Fix it. Or at least add a theme toggle.

๐Ÿ’€ Happy Easter.
Go find your soul.

List of Google Easter eggs: elgoog.im/

โธป

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Easter Egg
N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-27

Blender's new "Oscar-winning" version is here to finally help software enthusiasts achieve... well, nothing much really. ๐Ÿค” After all, who needs actual awards when you can navigate an endless maze of version numbers and download links instead? ๐ŸŽ‰โœจ
blender.org/download/releases/

2024-07-17

New coding checklist just dropped. Don't ask why we've had to add a "Have you caused an affront to God and man?" question to the checklist...

#softwaredevelopment #coding #softwarehumor

A screenshot of a checklist for code merge requests. It says: 

General Checklist

- Major or minor version incremented as appropriate 
- Change is fully documented above
- Impact of change evaluated across all users - not just the context driving the change 
- Additional reviewers included and notified via Teams if change is affecting them
- API and coding standards met as defined here [link] 
- Deployment/Terraform code is "stack compliant" as outlined in the Wiki [link] 
- Dependencies Dave been checked - e.g. APIM products, App Configuration
- Have you caused an affront to God and man?
Matthew Reinboldmatthew@opinuendo.com
2024-03-07

"How's the integration going?"

"It's really coming together! Can't wait for you to see the results."

(Originally seen at twitter.com/davidjmcelroy/stat)

#APIs #developerHumor #softwareHumor

Two CD cases are laid next to each other. A copy of Michael Jackson's Bad, with Michael Jackson's head and torso, is above INXS's Kick album, which features a pair of legs on a skateboard toward the top of the album art. Together, it looks like a massive Michael Jackson with tiny legs is riding a skateboard.
Matthew Reinboldmatthew@opinuendo.com
2024-01-31

Found on LinkedIn.

In a bit more serious light, I can't fault leaders for identifying the "animating energy" within their organizations and bending it to their immediate needs. HOWEVER, the failure to properly manage expectations and reaching far beyond one's grasp is what gets folks in trouble.

#AI #techStack #devHumor #softwareHumor

A two panel Flex tape meme. In the top panel, the flex tape guy winds up to slap a patch of tape over a hole in a tank, which is gushing water. The guy is labeled 'Lots of Companies' and the tank is labeled 'Tech Stack'. In the bottom panel, the patch is being held over the hole. It is labeled 'AI'.
Matthew Reinboldmatthew@opinuendo.com
2024-01-31

Best one of these I've seen, tbh. #agile #devHumor #softwareHumor

A "They've played us for fools" meme but done for agile software development. It includes phrases like "POKER is a GAME not a PLANNING TOOL" and "'Points represent complexity, not time" YET YOU KEEP MEASURING HOW MANY POINTS FIT IN A WEEK??"
Matthew Reinboldmatthew@opinuendo.com
2023-12-07

Understanding and interpreting numerous sources manifests in many forms. This upcoming piece seems to be strongly meme-worthy.

#cloud #hyperscalers #software #invincible #devHumor #softwareHumor

A version of the Invincible 'That's the neat part: you don't.' meme. In the top panel, Mark is labeled as 'Cloud Devs' and his subtitled speech asks, "So when do we finish paying off our infra cost?" In the lower panel, he father that we later find out is evil is labeled, "Hyperscalers". His response is, "That's the neat part: you don't."

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