Programmer Humor

spinning up new tech startup: nah forget it. you don't even have to watch videos

"Ok, so what you can see in the logs?"

"Sweetcorn."

I can consider acceptable for the kettles to be connected to the internet if, and only if, they answer always with a 418 status code.

If it doesn't work well without the Internet, it's a bad investment. Features that require the Internet degrading a bit is one thing, but if a toilet or toaster can't do its basic job offline, it was ewaste the second it rolled off the factory line.

The difference between an IT person and a tech enthusiast

My sister's new apartment's front door has a "smart lock", hooked up to Ring, naturally. No keyhole, you open it with your phone. It also runs on batteries.

Do I really need to say any more? We were baffled.

EDIT: Correction - there IS a keyhole but the actual tenants don't have access to it. Only the property management. Creepy. :|

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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