#developer-humor on Hacker News

2 stories tagged developer-humor, newest first.

Screenshot of taylor.town: Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase (taylor.town)

683 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 462 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.

satire legacy-code software-engineering developer-humor

Rejected GitHub profile achievements (github.com)

468 points by kelseyfrog 3 years ago | 112 comments

A GitHub repository listing humorous fake GitHub profile achievement badges that "did not make the cut," such as a WOMM (works on my machine) achievement.

github github-achievements developer-humor parody

#developer-humor on Hacker News

Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase(taylor.town)

Rejected GitHub profile achievements(github.com)

Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase (taylor.town)

Rejected GitHub profile achievements (github.com)