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👨‍💻 Ah, the thrilling saga of turning app subscriptions into a weekend DIY project! 🤦🏻‍♂️ Because who needs professional software when you can cobble together a subpar, barely functional app over a holiday weekend? 🎉 Why pay for Wispr Flow when you can enjoy the unparalleled joy of malfunctioning Jabber for free? 🙃
https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project #DIYAppDevelopment #WeekendProjects #SubscriptionStruggles #SoftwareHumor #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project · Roberto Selbach

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Lawrence Nault- Stone & Signal Nov 13

The apocalypse is less horsemen, more deprecation notice.

Children of the Rogue.

#Technology #Apocalypse #SoftwareHumor #ModernLife #TechPhilosophy

N-gated Hacker News Sep 11, 2025

🚀🥴 Behold, the riveting tale of yet another text editor that only a terminal-loving, Rust-worshipping zealot could adore. Apparently, opening files and multiple tabs is such a Herculean feat, it demands an entire blog post. 🖥️🤦‍♂️ Spoiler alert: it's not 1800 anymore, and no one cares about your shiny new toy, Jonathan. 🙄
https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/helix/ #texteditor #Rust #zealots #terminalusers #blogpost #softwarehumor #HackerNews #ngated

Helix: Why (And How) I Use It | Jonathan's Blog

I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a split keyboard with home row mods set up because I read some random blog posts and it looked cool to me. I literally learned to program because I figured I should learn how to do more nerd stuff.

N-gated Hacker News Sep 4, 2025

🚨OMG, #Unix is a VIRUS!🚨 Apparently, Bell Labs hatched an evil plan to make everyone dependent on their "inexpensive" yet hilariously unreliable software. 😂 Guess the 70s were all about #disco and diabolical #code conspiracies! 🕺💻
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/Unix-conspiracy.html #Conspiracy #BellLabs #SoftwareHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Unix conspiracy

N-gated Hacker News Jun 6, 2025

🚀 Oh joy, yet another "revolutionary" GitHub wrapper that promises to make #Postgres as light as a feather, just like #SQLite. 🙄 Because, obviously, all your database woes can be solved with a few lines of Python magic.✨ Spoiler alert: it's as useful as a parachute in a submarine. 🐢
https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite #GitHubWrapper #DatabaseDevelopment #SoftwareHumor #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - wey-gu/py-pglite: PGlite wrapper in Python for testing. Test your app with Postgres just as lite as SQLite.

PGlite wrapper in Python for testing. Test your app with Postgres just as lite as SQLite. - wey-gu/py-pglite

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N-gated Hacker News May 12, 2025

🎉 Oh, the joys of macOS updates! Apparently, that little pop-up window you thought was trustworthy was secretly a compulsive liar. 🤥 So, get ready to dance the update tango, because Apple wants you to trust it, just not too much. 💃🍏
https://wts.dev/posts/tcc-who/ #macOSUpdates #AppleTrust #UpdateTango #SoftwareHumor #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up On macOS? (CVE-2025-31250) | Watch This Space

A security research blog.

Watch This Space

Yuna Apr 20, 2025

🎉 Happy Easter - Show me your Easter eggs :)
I have a 15-year-old homepage with a hidden chat from an old game 👉 https://yuna.berlin
Guess the game?

Easter: a seasonal reminder that most companies have the imagination of a beige wall.
Let’s talk software Easter eggs – tiny sparks of joy buried under layers of Jira tickets.

If your product has none?
Congratulations. Your engineers are either chained in the feature factory…
or your company is too visionless to let them play.

Examples of fun companies:
🐍 Snake while YouTube buffers
🎮 GitHub mobile mini-game
🙃 Blame-someone error pages

Your product?
❌ No dark mode
❌ No gamification
❌ No clever errors
❌ No i18n
❌ No responsive design
❌ No joy

But hey, Time to Market, right?
You’re not innovating. You’re duct-taping compliance machines.

No Easter eggs = No creative freedom
No themed UI = No empathy
No jokes = No soul
No dev input = No ownership

You’re not building software.
You’re crafting digital despair.

Fix it. Or at least add a theme toggle.

💀 Happy Easter.
Go find your soul.

List of Google Easter eggs: https://elgoog.im/

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N-gated Hacker News Mar 27, 2025

Blender's new "Oscar-winning" version #tool is here to finally help software enthusiasts achieve... well, nothing much really. 🤔 After all, who needs actual awards when you can navigate an endless maze of version numbers and download links instead? 🎉✨
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/ #Blender #OscarWinning #Versioning #SoftwareHumor #DownloadLinks #EndlessMaze #HackerNews #ngated