Tag Archives: Humor

Read Meat Friday: The Editor Wars

Posted on 2021-01-29 by jcs

Yes, yes. We know it’s not quite true but it feels emotionally right. Or at least, satisfying. Something is wrong with the @Linux community if we’re arguing over ANY editors but #Emacs and #vi #vim #TheEditorWar https://t.co/Up1XECH6V4 — John S. … Continue reading →

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The Wizard Book Cover Explained

Posted on 2020-10-20 by jcs

A lot of you probably know that Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, SICP, is also called “The Wizard Book.” A glace at its cover explains the alternate name but Conor Hoekstra has a more thorough explanation of the cover: … Continue reading →

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The Types Controversy Explained

Posted on 2020-10-03 by jcs

After yesterday’s heavy duty post on modernizing Emacs, here’s something to refresh your palate. I find this hilarious on many levels. Your mileage may vary: types are social constructs created by Big Compiler to sell more passes — (lambda () … Continue reading →

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on 2020-09-27 by jcs

I find this hilarious: Brilliant: When the euro bank notes were designed, they used European-style bridges which were *non-existing*, not to have to choose between countries. The Dutch town of Spijkenisse claimed them all for the Netherlands by building them … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Star Wars and the Light/Dark Controversy

Posted on 2020-05-29 by jcs

The minions at Irreal, it appears, refuse to let the light-mode/dark-mode debate die. Here’s the latest offering: Your choice between light mode and dark mode on your phone clearly dictates whether you’re Jedi or Sith — Shivon Zilis (@shivon) April … Continue reading →

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Quarantini

Posted on 2020-03-26 by jcs

Despite all the doom and gloom about COVID-19 some folks are maintaining their sense of humor. To wit: Time for a quarantiniii🍸😷 @AviationGin @vancityreynolds pic.twitter.com/l11ZWavFfg — marilyn starkloff (@MStarkloff) March 12, 2020 Of course Aviation American Gin and Emergen-C are … Continue reading →

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The Online Shopping Experience

Posted on 2020-01-16 by jcs

I don’t usually indulge myself like this but the following so perfectly captures my experience of dealing with my health insurance provider yesterday that I couldn’t resist. The captcha and the ‘Contact Us’ button are perfect 😂😭 #digitalexperience pic.twitter.com/rlF57ICMjP — … Continue reading →

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Claim: 95% of Users Prefer Dark Mode

Posted on 2019-11-29 by jcs

Over at Polar, they’re getting a lot of requests to implement Dark Mode for their application. They claim that 95% of users prefer dark over light mode. Actually, they’re a little more nuanced than that so you should follow the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday

Posted on 2019-10-25 by jcs

I’m a little behind today so let’s have another Red Meat Friday. For all you OO lovers and haters out there, Kontra has this offering: Rob Pike (of Unix, UTF-8, Go fame): “object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing” … Continue reading →

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Hacker Laws

Posted on 2019-09-26 by jcs

Here’s a quickie that I stumbled on the other day. Dave Kerr has a nice GitHub repository that’s gathered a collection of “laws” and aphorisms that all Geeks know and love. He calls it hacker-laws. Many of the laws, such … Continue reading →

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