Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User https://t.co/VPEaaiOGId” / Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/24
Some good slide material (and even better further down this post) from [Wayback/Archive] Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User”:
Alt-text from [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @get_altText on Thread Reader App:
Fake oreilly book covers in a grid.
- Book 1, copying and pasting from stackoverflow.
- Book 2, googling the error message.
- Book 3, trying stuff until it works.
- Book 4, writing code that nobody can read.
- Book 5, the guy who wrote this is gone.
- Book 6, blaming the user.
- Book 7, forgetting how your code works.
- Book 8, changing stuff and seeing what happens.
- Book 9, vague understanding computer science.
- Book 10, useless git commit messages.
- Book 11, coding on the weekend
OCR text from [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @captions_please on Thread Reader App
Cutting corners to meet arbitrary management deadlines
Essential
Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow
O’REILLYThe Guy Who Wrote This Is Gone
It’s running everywhere
ORLY?The Practical Developer The PracticalDev
FML
Probably be able explain a sorting algorithm if it ever comes up
ORLY?
Expert
Vague Understanding of Computer SciencePracticaller
The internet will make these bad words go away
Essential
Googling the Error Message
ORLY?The Practical Developer Practical Dev
You’re a 10 hacker and it must be someone else’s fault
ORLY?
Blaming the User
Pocket ReferenceReal World
Rewriting Your Front End Every Six Weeks
ORLY?Software can be chaotic, but we make it work
Expert
Trying Stuff Until it WorksThe PracticalDer
ORLY?
This time you have definitely chosen the right libraries and build tools
The Practical Der
The Practical Developer PracticalDre
Maybe you should have commented
Forgetting How Your Own Code Works
//TODO: Comment
ORLY
We have all had this happenORLY?
Function Zero
Does it run? Just leave it alone.
Writing Code that Nobody Else Can Read
The Definitive Guide
The PracticalDev
ORLY?git commit-m “changes”
Writing
Useless Git Commit MessagesHow to actually learn any new programming concept
Essential
Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens
ORLY?The PracticalD
ke weekday ceding, but pants are optional
Coding on the Weekend
A Frustrating Hobby
ORLY?
Google Lens – finding original(s)
Using Google Lens, I was able to find multiple sources some with super high res pictures.
This was the queste:
- [Wayback/Archive] What are you doing currently? – DEV Community
- [Wayback/Archive] James Barton’s answer to Do software coders memorise every coding syntax in programming languages? – Quora
- [Wayback/Archive] A few Months ago there was a picture of a ORLY poster so I made my own Image from my favorite covers to use as poster. Feel free to use it as well! : ProgrammerHumor
O RLY generator blog posts
Before showing the posters, here are some older blog posts demonstrating how to make these book covers:
- Essential drop table animals – now with user-generated content – ThePracticalDev – O RLY?
- Reddit: parodies on O RLY Books
- O RLY Parody Book Generator for Slack
title=Finding your own G+ posts on Google top_text=Your off-line memory organised. author=Kanye West
The last two reddit posts got me to the gems
- [Wayback/Archive] A Collection of O’rly book Covers | Ben E. C. Boyter
- [Wayback/Archive] thepracticaldev/orly-full-res: Full resolution images of the O RLY book covers made by The Practical Dev (on which the posters below have been built, but note there are more images here than in the posters below)
- [Wayback/Archive] orly-full-res/README.md at master · thepracticaldev/orly-full-res
Full resolution images of the O RLY book covers made by The Practical DevThese are parody images and are not associated with the actual O’Reilly Media company or brand.Here is the O RLY Cover Generator.These images can be used for non-commercial purposes under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic
Hopefully someday I have some energy to send a pull request with generator links for all images in the above repository.
- [Wayback/Archive] orly-full-res/README.md at master · thepracticaldev/orly-full-res
- [Wayback/Archive] B-Lukas/orly-poster: Done with
https://github.com/thepracticaldev/orly-full-res
–jeroen
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