Christian Basler 🐙💻 @chrigu@mastodon.dissem.ch

any more than software that runs in a VMWare virtual appliance is crossplatform. It's not even significantly lighter weight than doing that.

Taking your platform with you doesn't make your software crossplatform.

this sums up agile development in the enterprise quite nicely https://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org

Ihr kennt das: Ihr sitzt im grün beleuchteten Raum, wollt eigentlich euren unformatierten JS-Code in Ordnung bringen und habt sogar schon ein bisschen reingezoomt, aber es ist super schwierig, weil die rechte Seite des Bildschirms sich nicht scharf stellen lässt.

"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

when the boss tells us to deprioritize fixing tech debt "so we can ship more product features"

InspiroBot™ exists to serve mankind.

You have been visited by margaret hamilton. Fast code and moon landings will come to you but only if you boost this toot

well that's creative 😂

I'm dying 😂

#Inktober2018 Day 3

Roasted

#Inktober

InspiroBot™ exists to serve mankind.

InspiroBot™ exists to serve mankind.

Bunch of cell-outs

boost this duck for no reason

1) It's big. Really big.
2) It doesn't officially have a name but people call it Bob.
3) It really wishes people wouldn't call it Bob.

People often wonder why printers are so cantankerous but frankly any device that embeds pigmented runes in the remains of long-dead trees is going to be stricken by an ancient faerie curse from the start

"I'd like to return my companion-bot, serial code JX99031."

"Sure; and could you describe the fault you encountered?"

"Fault? Nah, it's perfect. Never been so well taken care of. Hate having to send it back honestly."

"Then... why are you returning it?"

"This will sound really weird."

"Try me."

"It misses it's mum."

"Oh! That's a rare glitch. No return necessary, it can visit the factory any time during business hours."

"Oh good!"

#tootfic #microfiction #smallstories #scifi #terylstales

Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn’t think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.