Waiting for the build (oil on canvas)

April 19, 2016 10:21 PM

Classic Programmer Paintings. Classical painters depictions of software engineering by @gclaramunt.
posted by zabuni (14 comments total)

"Frontend developers approach newly released JS framework"
posted by atoxyl at 10:42 PM on April 19, 2016 [3 favorites]

My taxi driver is wondering why I'm laughing in his car :-) Great post!
posted by Triplanetary at 10:49 PM on April 19, 2016

Not enough Pollock for JS.
posted by adept256 at 10:51 PM on April 19, 2016 [4 favorites]

Brilliant. I'm particularly fond of Sysadmin grants sudo privileges to developer on production web server. java.util.Date is also pretty inspired.
posted by NoRelationToLea at 11:31 PM on April 19, 2016 [4 favorites]

My older coworkers and I nearly shit ourselves laughing at these at work, but all I got was sensible chuckles when they were in my slides at a Django meetup. Ah, youth.

The image for “Developer explaining SEO to marketing” is the death of Socrates. Sweet mother of pearl, the person behind this is brilliant.
posted by fatbird at 11:35 PM on April 19, 2016 [4 favorites]

Not enough despair in "Programmers at work maintaining a Ruby on Rails application".
posted by antiwiggle at 1:42 AM on April 20, 2016 [5 favorites]

This is great fun. I think I'll repurpose some of the grand masters for my developer meeting this Friday.
posted by Harald74 at 5:48 AM on April 20, 2016

partner asking why i am giggling at "A visual guide to the Scala language."
posted by andrewcooke at 6:35 AM on April 20, 2016 [3 favorites]

I had just assumed this had been posted and that I had missed it... It is indeed comedy gold. Dude reviewing production logs, we have all been there.
posted by GuyZero at 7:30 AM on April 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Speaking as someone who majored in Illustration but works as a developer: This is fantastic.
posted by Kikkoman at 8:58 AM on April 20, 2016

Programmer finds 1395 conflicts after ‘git merge develop master’, three days before deadline.

The expression on his face. Perfect.
posted by RedOrGreen at 7:56 PM on April 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

NoRelationToLea: "java.util.Date is also pretty inspired."

Said no one ever.

joda4life
posted by schmod at 8:25 PM on April 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

andrewcooke: "partner asking why i am giggling at "A visual guide to the Scala language.""

The rightmost panel is definitely scalaz.
posted by schmod at 8:27 PM on April 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

but I work on a distributed team
posted by zutalors! at 7:55 AM on April 21, 2016