All this talk of garbled code and web design has me thinking of two things: work and how people in my former profession often hate the people they work for.
Okay, hate may be a little excessive, but there are a reason sites like Clients from Hell exist. The simple reason is this: for those of us in careers in which no one understand what we do, or in which we are expected to be magic, we will go crazy if we don’t laugh at our tormentor overlords.
I think that’s been what’s happening around here with Denton today. Blowing off steam.
In an attempt to redirect that, I have a question for you: how do people in your profession blow off steam/mock those who torment you/etc?
XKCD is one of my favorite destinations – usually a new comic every M-W-F and they make me actually laugh quite a bit. Coding well is hard, and this is the perfect visualization of it:
From Should I Work for Free, and I actually remind myself to look at it before I offer to do something for a friend (which results in me saying No a lot). If you are a code geek go look at her site because she actually made the visual chart using CSS and HTML. So much love for that.
Click to expand the flow chart.
So. What about you guys?