Thanks Programmers and Engineers

You guys are awesome. You've taken a bunch of sand and made it do some amazing things. FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves. You all deserve a medal.

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davel@lemmy.ml · 50 pts · 88d (10 replies)

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 88d (9 replies)

I wonder what the guy in this photo is up to now?

ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 88d (8 replies)
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 88d (2 replies)

After being widely disseminated online, Messing was labeled "Fedora Guy" and the picture became synonymous with "neckbeard" and "nice guy" stereotypes, as well as a joke at the expense of zealous atheists.

This is such a funny way of putting it

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 88d (1 reply)

"zealous atheists" links to the article for New Atheism which is even funnier

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 87d

Hah, I wanted to check what it linked to. Both funny and accurate.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 88d

The link to his youtube still works, and he's been posting fortnite videos recently.

There's a video from 10 months back, and his health doesn't look great.

Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d

Jerry went Messing

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Wow I did not have to wonder about that for very long!

Never knew it was that Freaks and Geeks kid..

Thanks!

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 88d

He got a bad case of COVID-19, was in a coma, and is permanently paralyzed. Looks like he's got a GoFundMe for medical transport from Florida to Texas, where he'd have better support and hopefully be able to do voice work.

mik3dd0@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 87d

Oh my days! Freaks and Geeks if one of my favourite shows and never did I make the connection! Holy crap. D:

auzy1@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 88d (1 reply)

Except the ones that submit AI slop patches to projects without even understanding it or being upfront about it

voytrekk@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 87d

Are those people really developers or just sloperators?

farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 88d

friendly reminder to donate to open source projects if you can. those devs work hard

Attacker94@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 87d (3 replies)

FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves.

I guarantee that most contributors who aren't being paid are doing their commits out of spite, but I can definitely applaud them for being as vindictive as they are.

mik3dd0@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 87d

This. The best code I've ever written and the one I'm proudest of, has been written out of spite. XD

eldavi@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 87d (1 reply)

i wonder if spite is the reason why the grapheneos people do their thing. lol

Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 86d

Almost certainly.

crash_thepose@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 88d

Agreed. Thank you for what you do