Eddiots

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by jacquesm • 3 years ago

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eddiots.com

MollyRealized• 3 years ago

I find myself a bit at a loss for words.

mjmsmith• 3 years ago

It's like rain on your wedding day.

m-i-l• 3 years ago

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".

atmosx• 3 years ago

It's a free ride when you've already paid.

swayvil2• 3 years ago

Good drawing. Gets the point across smoothly. Low noise.

edw51913• 3 years ago

Thank you, Swayvil.

swayvil2• 3 years ago

Are you familiar with the works of Jim Woodring?

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AB5stBjDzM_SzOQxiwfZz-2Z...

andrelaszlo• 3 years ago

What is this? A Dilbert parody?

Haha, everyone's an idiot?

DoreenMichele3• 3 years ago

Looks like self-deprecating humor to me. Author's first name is Ed (presumably was called Eddie as a child).

jacquesm6• 3 years ago

This is all by HN'er edw519 who apparently has hidden talents.

webkike2• 3 years ago

I clicked on random and it showed me a comic where a bear wasn't let into a bar because the bar has a "two bear minimum."

I don't think I'm the target audience

bombcar• 3 years ago

something something "I'm a frayed knot" and "arrrr it's driving me nuts".

DoreenMichele3• 3 years ago

Probably should be read through a lens of "dry sense of humor mixed with word play." Helps if you know anything about "working in IT" memes.

webkike2• 3 years ago

My problem is that if there was a two bear minimum, he'd let in more bears

tempodox• 3 years ago

Don't you fulfill the bear minimum for understanding this pun? Try frequenting lower bars.

skulk• 3 years ago

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.

Chant-I-CRW• 3 years ago

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.

PedroBatista2• 3 years ago

Too close for comfort with the big Co stuff I'm dealing with now..

Congratulations to the author. And too many people here seem to "not get it" which makes me even more depressed.

jacquesm6• 3 years ago

Oh they'll get it. They just haven't been in the industry long enough to get it. Give them some time :)

edw51913• 3 years ago

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.

romwell• 3 years ago

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!

edw51913• 3 years ago

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202154

PedroBatista2• 3 years ago

My jokes are like the weather. If you don't like one, just click for another. Maybe that one will connect.

You're the Mikael Wulff of IT.. - http://wumo.com/wumo

edw51913• 3 years ago

Cool site. Looks like I'll be busy for a while. Thank you, Pedro!

dasil003• 3 years ago

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.

edw51913• 3 years ago

Thank you, dasi003! That's pretty much what I'm intending. I love your summary.

ngshiheng• 3 years ago

love your comic and sense of humour! glad i found this gem here

ichik• 3 years ago

Hi, thank you for this wonderful thing. Please consider adding an RSS feed.

edw51913• 3 years ago

Thank you, ichik!

I just added this: http://eddiots.com/rss.xml

Is this sufficient or would it be better if I added anything else?

svilen_dobrev• 3 years ago

hey, the link under "tag" in eddiot news frame is broken:

https://eddiots.com/ArchiveCategory goes 404

edw51913• 3 years ago

Fixed (removed, deprecated). Thank you, svilen_dobrev.

shoo• 3 years ago

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.

The classic: https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-lin... "It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code"

This one explains the arc of my career more than I'd prefer to admit:

https://edw519.posthaven.com/willie-sutton-would-be-an-enter... "Willie Sutton would be an Enterprise Programmer"

edw51913• 3 years ago

Thank you, shoo, for this blast from the past. I had forgotten all about those. Hmmm, maybe another comic or two?

openplatypus• 3 years ago

This is not only enterprise. This applies to sleuth of startups.

This triggers so many memories.

mda3• 3 years ago

The humor is a bit of an acquired taste I guess.

jacquesm6• 3 years ago

all humor is acquired.

mda3• 3 years ago

What I meant was that the humor of these comics did not appeal to me, but maybe that could change if I read more of it.

andersrs• 3 years ago

Everything is SVG/HTML. Nice!

edw51913• 3 years ago

Thanks, andersrs!

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.

pseufaux3• 3 years ago

First time I've come across this. It's fantastic! Is there not a RSS feed, or am I just missing it?

edw51913• 3 years ago

Thank you, pseufaux!

You didn't miss anything.

I just added this: http://eddiots.com/rss.xml

Is this sufficient or would it be better if I added anything else?

pseufaux3• 3 years ago

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.

For context, I'm on an iPhone using Safari.

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