Humor

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A short Mastodon post riffing on the Dunning-Kruger effect from the other direction: the more expertise you accumulate, the more acutely you notice everyone else’s gaps. A pithy reminder to stay humble about what you think you know — and charitable about what others don’t.

Also, a rather hilarious video about shoe sizes and how they differ across the world

Lorin Hochstein stages a short play in which an engineering manager discovers the “carefulness knob” — the dial a team implicitly turns when deciding how much testing and process rigor a change deserves. The punchline is that cranking it to maximum doesn’t eliminate incidents, it just pushes delivery dates out exponentially, and teams are far worse at estimating risk than anyone would like to admit.

via Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social): Attached: 1 image

Someone fed the text of the MIT License into Suno’s AI music generator with the prompt “sad girl with piano” and got back a genuinely affecting piano ballad. The highlight: it nails “WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY” with an Imogen Heap-style glissando, then immediately mangles “FITNESS” into “fistiff.”

via Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 (@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social): Attached: 1 image

A short video gag from Ryan Els capturing the daily relationship between a developer and their IDE — including the autocomplete that insists it knows what you meant to type. The replies are just as relatable: “I just want to use the tab button!”

via Shafik Yaghmour (@shafik@hachyderm.io): Attached: 1 image

A five-question C quiz where the correct answer to every question is “I don’t know” — structure padding, integer promotion, implementation-defined char signedness, and unsequenced side effects all conspire to make seemingly obvious code undefined. A good humbling reminder that knowing C’s syntax is not the same as knowing what the standard actually guarantees.

A browser-based editor for building realistic US highway guide signs — panels, shields, control cities, arrows, and all — with the ability to save the result as an image. Ooh, this could be dangerous!

A humorous guide to choosing a programming language …

via Kevin Stewart: </> htmx ~ Hypermedia On Whatever you’d Like

via Amanda: 4 years ago today since I added Run DMC ft. Aerosmith to a video of the shadow of a millipede walking.

How to dis somebody’s programming language idea …

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via PixiePancake: You’re hired.

via Babe Truth: In space, no one can hear you scream. In cyberspace, no one can shut you up.

I kind of can’t get this “song” out of my head …

via kottke.org: Some notes on the design of the alphabet. "Love the spacing between vowels!"

Today I learned that there is a whole web site devoted to explaining xkcd.com cartoons!