Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.
In about 2 weeks this will be 10 years old
And I’m honestly astonished I’d never come across this before. This ranks up there with the story of Mel.
Mel, a real programmer!
I’d add a motherfucking website. While not exactly a story, it’s one of my favorite bits on the internets
everything beyond https://motherfuckingwebsite.com is worse imo
Nah, it takes very little effort or compute to get something much much better in pretty much every aspect.
ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.
classic.
The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.
Well… said?
Which is odd- I threaten mine, and that’s why it behaves.
opens htop threateningly
It is telling that I read the entire post feeling varying degrees of incredulity and despair, yet what really upset me was the missing
<rant>at the beginning.“This is so funny and painful!”
Is this what burnout looks like?
