My mother seems to disengage her brain when using a computer, so you must give instructions in exacting detail...

Me: Close that window.
Mom: Um, ok?
Me: ... Click the little red button at the top left...
MS Word: Save document? Yes / No
Mom: ... Now what?
Me: Well, do you want to save that?
Mom: Yes! ...
Me: ... so... click Yes...

... and I die a little more inside...

When you find an issue with your code logic... and you rewrite it all to find out it could’ve been so much easier...

!dev

RIP grumpy cat. You were a great meme buddy

New PC, chair and desk...Finally everything is ok with my PC, so here is the final result...

I/O 2019

After the whole Asus issue, my ThinkPad finally arrived. Finally (after about a week being held by UPS) Time to pick some stickers to put on this thing.

Not my mom, but my girlfriends grandmother. I told her that I am a software developer, a guy who makes the programs which run on computers.

She became really excited about that, because finally she found someone to repair her 40-year-old radio. I told her that I have no fucking idea about radios, but she did not want to hear that. So I looked at the case, randomly pushed some buttons and again told her, that I could not find the broken part, let alone repair it. But she didn't listen and told me to open the case and look inside.

Sighingly I opened the radio, looked at the inner parts and told her once more, that I don't know anything about this stuff. She told me to look more closely. About to lose my mind about this pointless task, I finally told her, that "the transistor" is the problem and that the best thing she could do is to throw it away and buy a new radio. She was happy with that answer.

Taking a break from the computer stuff...

Source Facebook

Well said. Well said indeed.

Not original but nevertheless funny

I can relate to this.

Again, not related to programming.....

A girl just canceled our first date to watch Avenger's Endgame with her friends. Pres ++ to pay respects.

OC from a while back, still relevant to me today

What do you guys do to get away from conputers? I, for one started practicing card magic and i say it's really helped me. Card magic and programming are 2 polar opposites. For card magic, social inter action is necessary while programming gets pretty lonely. Anyways, i'm really curious about your other hobbyes

My friend (not in CS) said his computer was a bit slow.
I told him I'd fix that for 10, he agreed.

I increased the cursor speed.
He bought it.

Am I the only one that prefers a clean laptop with no stickers?

(I do put all my stickers in a notebook however.)

If I had a penny for every time I have had a thought about deleting the production database.....

Forever i....

Sent to a friend while discussing our shitty sites.

Quick backstory. I've negotiated with our customers to drop IE11 support (happiest day of my life) and decided to also refactor and update our webpack configuration. I asked a bunch of questions about a few exclusions we had for JS processing and received a reply of: I don't know if we need these anymore. Queue a snippet of my response in a meme format on how I wish to proceed with the change done by our tech lead.

Ummm.......ok

There is a bug in my coffee 🤦🏼‍♂️

The fact that we can’t control all the functions and organs in our body means that we don’t have admin privileges.

So true!!

I don't remember Stackoverflow being wrong?... XD

credits to dankmemes. should also include nuclear wastes and corrupt politicians

WhOops....lot of scope for linux users

Imagine accidentally deleting the entire production database today and people thought you were joking.