Author here. Thank you my long time hn friend, jacquesm, for posting this.
I've been programming my entire adult life (and then some). I worked at many enterprises and SMBs. As the character who I live vicariously says on https://eddiots.com/1, "I love programming but I hate going to work." I'll never stop programming but the people at work have worn me out.
I've been posting here for 16 years as well as several other sites. I've always had something to say but have found it increasingly harder to say what I'm thinking without sounding like I'm preaching. Thus the comics. Might as well get it off my chest in a way we can all have a little fun. If I wasn't able to laugh all these years, I probably would have gone back to work at McDonalds.
It's all software driven with only html, css, and svg. (I'll have the markup on every page next week.) No images or media queries. I kept it simple and post something new every weekday. It's just something I have to do. (And way better than all those CRUD apps and standups.)
Thanks to all of you for your kind (and other) words. My jokes are like the weather. If you don't like one, just click for another. Maybe that one will connect.
What you've really captured is the banality and non-sequitur nature of corporate meetings where major participants are in charge of things well beyond their ken. Dilbert did it first, but you took it to new post-modern heights.
Hey, saw your comic from a comment you made on reddit recently, and glad to see it pop up here too. I felt that it was underappreciated, and glad to see it getting the recognition it deserves!
Thank you, romwell. reddit is a strange bird these days. I never know what to expect. I like it because I can post the art right in the thread, not like my feeble attempt here (below). eddiots is way more fun.
A lot of Ed's writing will resonate if you've served as a programmer in an enterprise environment for a tour of duty or two. I found reading Ed's writing therapeutic while going through culture shock of working in an enterprise non-tech megacorp for the first time. There's a lot of hard-won wisdom & business & career advice, as well as the humour.
It's impressive that this appears to be done entirely with HTML and CSS. The humor, however, is opaque to me. I do have a lot to learn from this though, and I will be reading the source.
I spent two decades working out of carpet covered boxes. These comics are giving me flashbacks. Outside I'm chuckling, but inside I'm waiting for the on-call pager to go off.
In many cultures rain on your wedding day is a good omen, e.g. the Portuguese saying which translates as "wet wedding, blessed wedding", and the Italian saying which translates as "wet bride, lucky bride".
In contrast, Eastern European men will have frequently told me I've never got my wife wet. Presumably, this is to congratulate me on protecting her from the cars driving through puddles.
Awesome! Thank you! The only thing is I'm getting. A 404 when accessing any of the item urls. Looking at the xml, its adding a / at the end of each url which is causing the 404. If I remove the / it works. Is that an easy fix. The same thing happens if I try to go to any of the pages manually.
Fixed. Sorry about that. Please try again and let me know.
It's Sunday. I should be drinking beer and watching sports but I'm married to my fantasy project so these things happen.
I didn't think rss was important any more. Thanks for setting me straight.
And thanks again for the kind words. Please drop me an email (on my hn profile or in the footer of every eddiots webpage. I want to stay in touch with any hn friend who uses the word "fantastic". :-)
I added a "Show SVG Markup" button toward the bottom of every page so you can see how I did it. This may be a little less overwhelming for some people that View Page Source.
Thanks mda, for the great feedback. (The greatness of feedback is not correlated with its positivity or negativity.)
I sort of anticipated this. I wrote the comic below just for times like this. Please stay in touch and let me know if any of this grows on you. I sure hope it does. That's what helped me get through it all.
I don't know how long you've been in the industry but for me it's bittersweet and all too recognizable, so definitely funny but funny with an asterisk or quotes around it. Ed is passing on a ton of embedded wisdom here in the same way that a gifted comedian (say, George Carlin or Bill Hicks) would. You laugh, but it also hurts.
I am in the industry for a very very long time. Maybe that is the reason, as I have heard (or made) similar jokes made several times in meeting rooms, on coffe breaks etc. Maybe I got too numb in general.
I appreciate his comics, some are definitely alright.
I've been programming my entire adult life (and then some). I worked at many enterprises and SMBs. As the character who I live vicariously says on https://eddiots.com/1, "I love programming but I hate going to work." I'll never stop programming but the people at work have worn me out.
I've been posting here for 16 years as well as several other sites. I've always had something to say but have found it increasingly harder to say what I'm thinking without sounding like I'm preaching. Thus the comics. Might as well get it off my chest in a way we can all have a little fun. If I wasn't able to laugh all these years, I probably would have gone back to work at McDonalds.
It's all software driven with only html, css, and svg. (I'll have the markup on every page next week.) No images or media queries. I kept it simple and post something new every weekday. It's just something I have to do. (And way better than all those CRUD apps and standups.)
Thanks to all of you for your kind (and other) words. My jokes are like the weather. If you don't like one, just click for another. Maybe that one will connect.