Tag Archives: Humor

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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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

The battle is joined. Guess where emacs.dev takes you.

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Emacs Doctor

Posted on 2018-10-28 by jcs

From fuco1, a little bit of humor to top off your weekend: #emacs Contrary to popular belief M-x doctor isn't so helpful all the timehttps://t.co/NvOeYmo3Ew — Matus Goljer (@Fuco1337) October 28, 2018

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The Decline of Penmanship

Posted on 2018-10-07 by jcs

In response to Friday’s post on going paperless, Smitty notes that one of the consequences is the decline of penmanship. He’s not the first to notice. Here’s what The Oatmeal had to say about it. The Oatmeal is, as always, … Continue reading →

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Things Seen That Can’t Be Unseen

Posted on 2018-01-14 by jcs

Whatever your opinion on the relative merits of the original Star Trek versus Star Trek TNG, there’s no debating that Jean-Luc Picard was one of the franchise’s iconic characters. The following image is therefore deeply disturbing: I knew that they … Continue reading →

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