Don’t know how I’ve never come across this, but this made me laugh and cry and nod appreciatively.
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?
My computer works better than that of others? I’m not so sure sometimes.
I just received an email from my home server saying that I have 8 sectors offline on my main storage Array.
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.
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
ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.
classic.
I fucking love this post and reference it constantly to my programmer friends. It’s one of my favorite bits of writing to exist, honestly.
For that matter, actually, pretty much everything Peter Welch writes is great. I highly recommend taking a peek through the rest of his blog. I liked it so much I bought one of his books.
