Welcome to the new world. Microsoft is now the top open source contributor on Github.

A young guy I work with burst into tears today, I had no idea what happened so I tried to comfort him and ask what was up.

It appears his main client had gone nuts with him because they wanted him to make an internet toolbar (think Ask.com) and he politely informed them toolbars doesn't really exist anymore and it wouldn't work on things like modern browsers or mobile devices.

Being given a polite but honest opinion was obviously something the client wasn't used to and knowing the guy was a young and fairly inexperienced, they started throwing very personal insults and asking him exactly what he knows about things (a lot more than them).

So being the big, bold, handsome senior developer I am, I immediately phoned the client back and told them to either come speak to me face-to-face and apologise to him in person or we'd terminate there contract with immediate effect. They're coming down tomorrow...

So part my rant, part a rant on behalf of a young developer who did nothing wrong and was treated like shit, I think we've all been there.

We'll see how this goes! Who the hell wants a toolbar anyway?!

hmm...

W...w...wha...whaaat?!

When you get a little confused

A group of wolves is called a pack.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A group of developers is called a merge conflict.

Seen in Amsterdam, getting on a ferry.

One of the many joys in a programmers life

When you fuck up your repo so bad it transforms into guitar hero

I hope they know what they're doing!

Orly?

using my local provider

I work at a company that sees front end developers as, basically, lab rats. I make less than my coworkers, who are all underpaid, and also turn out more clean code (based on mutual agreement, plus the only person who documents anything) than the rest of the team, and at much higher quantities.

Why? Because I get my ass handed to me by depression and anxiety every morning, and end up coming in ~1 hour late everyday. (For nearly a year now, even with medical intervention)

I'm probably going to be fired for it fairly soon, as well as get swallowed in medical bills.

On the bright side, I finally fixed a bug with my portfolio website that I've been working on, so I've got that going for me which is nice.

A Cobol programmer made so much money doing Y2K remediation that he was able to have himself cryogenically frozen when he died. One day in the future, he was unexpectedly resurrected.

When he asked why he was unfrozen, he was told:

"It's the year 9999 - and you know Cobol"

Amen :p

Made me laugh a little :D

Lol @ the Mr. Robot episode descriptions on Amazon video

Marketing sends an average of 3 newsletter per week all year round, and 4-5 per week on Christmas.
Mailchimp makes this so damn easy for them...

We have ~500.000 subscribed customers.

They discovered the new chrome push notifications API and I 'refused' to build anything for it because I already find the amount of email they send unacceptable and I am pretty sure they would abuse of it.
I'm already imagining like 10 push messages a day...

Am I wrong? What would you do?

How many are participating?!?!

Spaces or tabs? - Semicolons!

Remember when...

It's 2016, I'm still writing commit messages like,

Who else think this is awesome

I couldn't help but give a humble chuckle.

404 wall not found

Every damn time.

IT: The only place where killing parents and children is acceptable.

What only relying on JavaScript for HTML form input validation looks like

Me: I love Atom!

10 min later

Me: I hate you Atom!!!

correctly named devices