Programming Popular git hosting changes 'master' to 'mister', claims sexism is not as bad as slavery Many open source projects collectively decided to abandon the default git branch naming system which contains the name "master" for the main branch. "Master" has heavy slavery- and racism-related connotations.
Programming Homeless person mistaken for senior software engineer caught crashing tech meetups for food Patrick and Katy, a couple of vigilant attendees of developer meetups in Berlin, Germany started to notice the same face appearing at completely different events. The bearded, casually stylish person
Programming Statically typed language enthusiast doesn't recognize his newlywed wife after she took his last name A team of marriage counsellors, divorce attorneys and computer scientists are unable to resolve a tricky situation. Jeremy Monoyd, 37, seemed perfectly happy on his wedding day. However, as soon
Programming git push --force is 'sexy' and 'badass' according to survey A comprehensive survey about version control among software developers of numerous genders, sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds yields interesting results: git push --force is sexy, badass and dangerous, but in
Programming .NET developer's family does not know his blog is hosted on Linux To save some money on hosting fees senior developer Scott [REDACTED] migrated his ASP.NET Core web blog to Linux VMs. While the decision was solely based on cost Scott
Programming Programmer banished from society for using a mouse in VIM Young software developer's life was turned upside down in an unfortunate series of escalating events. Fired from his job, disowned by parents and later completely banished from society, John Smith
Programming Senior developer successfully converted 12 lines of Bash script into complex microservice architecture An experienced senior software developer managed to achieve an incredible expansion of complexity by converting a short bash script into a system powered by microservices. "I had a moment of
Programming PHP renamed to PythonScript in an attempt to refresh the brand As Python's popularity continues to grow steadily, the PHP community makes an attempt to refresh its brand by pulling the same trick JavaScript did in 1995. To avoid possible confusion,
Programming Programming interviews now test for proper use of emojis and GIFs in Slack Thanks to new legislation, starting June 3rd, 2020 all software development job interviews in California must include comprehensive testing of proper use of emojis and GIFs in the context of
Programming Open source maintainer apologizes for having a daytime job The numerous users of a popular free and open source app PureTorrentDownloader written by a solo developer can now lower their anger and frustration. Peter Pain, the author of PureTorrentDownloader,
JavaScript NPM now marks packages as abandoned after 24h since the last commit The world of JavaScript is high speed when it comes to updates. The Node Package Management ecosystem now treats packages as abandoned and deprecated as soon as 24 hours is
Programming Saying one programming language is better than another is considered hate speech Brussels, BELGIUM—New EU regulation will make it illegal to say that a particular programming language is better than any other. "Generally speaking, all Turing-complete programming languages are equal, thus
Programming Programmer starts a blog, doesn't write about her static site generator setup in the first post An unprecedented event was spotted on the Internet: a programmer Joanne Dvorak started a blog, but her first post was not about the static site generator setup. "I don't understand
Programming DevOps was found to be a conspiracy by tech companies A comprehensive independent investigation by law enforcement and workers' unions throughout North America concluded that DevOps is a conspiracy by major tech companies. The goal was to save money by
Programming Turns out 10x developer was on cocaine; boss hesitant to change things WASHINGTON, DC—The CTO at a major local consulting company in Washington was ecstatic upon hiring a mystical 10x developer via LinkedIn Jobs. Unfortunately, after several sprints it became clear
Programming Developer Impostor Syndrome Test You know the feeling... What if everybody around actually know much, much more than I do? What if I'm a total impostor and will soon be made? After all, I
