Krazam OS

https://www.krazam.tv/

by zdgeier • 2 years ago

975 184 2 years ago

krazam.tv

Apocryphon2• 2 years ago

They truly speak to the soul of a new industry

ashton3142• 2 years ago

Click on “safe space”.

DEVOPS is a meaningful term.

YOU WERE BORN TO DEPLOY KUBERNETES CLUSTERS!

panqueca• 2 years ago

"Your family understands what you do..."

johnisgood• 2 years ago

This makes me chuckle.

kreelman• 2 years ago

This had me laughing too. Very cool. Kind of neat that this one sits right next to the meta OS article...

Cue music from the lion King ...

Can you feel the irony tonight... It's so obvious..

Huge meta corps writing a spurious OS..

What a hideous mess...

andrewflnr2• 2 years ago

It makes me happy that it sits right above the Meta OS post (at this writing).

rc_mob• 2 years ago

That SRE video accurately depicted my life in DevOps. I felt that one.

bavell• 2 years ago

I clicked on safe space and all was right in the world once more

akoboldfrying• 2 years ago

SRENITY

throwup2382• 2 years ago

"You were born to deploy kubernetes"

"Your feedback is actionable and important"

"There will never be another outage again"

"Your tests are reliable and have appropriate coverage"

kaycey20222• 2 years ago

pfft.. I have no tests. Still need to figure out how to write them.

timnetworks2• 2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s

brennopost• 2 years ago

Reminds me of Severance Wellness Sessions

sph5• 2 years ago

Please try to enjoy all your Jira tickets equally.

whatever1• 2 years ago

buttery smooth scrolling + windows 98 = perfection

cosmic_quanta2• 2 years ago

Krazam is definitely the highlight of my YouTube subscriptions. Its specificity makes it even funnier.

coffeebeqn• 2 years ago

There aren’t many software engineering comedy channels but Krazam is hilarious no matter what scale you’re rating on

MikeDelta• 2 years ago

I find "Programmers are also human" quite funny as well. Interviews with stereotypes.

https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909

asimpletune• 2 years ago

I’ve tried to show it to my gf, who is v funny btw, and she had no idea what parts were supposed to be funny.

Alex3917• 2 years ago

Fireship is very different, but also highly worth a subscription.

boppo1• 2 years ago

Krazam does tech humor better than I've ever seen it. Absolutely dunks on silicon valley & big bang theory.

colecut• 2 years ago

Is big bang theory really "tech humor?"

I haven't watched much because the laugh track and general cheesiness turned me off.. but I thought it was just jokes about him being a "nerd" in the ways mainstream people think of nerds..

dgellow• 2 years ago

Their delivery is so good

dkarl2• 2 years ago

I often think about their Senior Engineer video before interviews. I simultaneously aspire to match that character's ancient wisdom and am terrified that I might accidentally resemble him personally.

smrtinsert2• 2 years ago

I actually have stopped telling stories thanks to that skit.

Ygg22• 2 years ago

It's more absurdist. Programmers are also human is way more on tech point in his jokes.

sph5• 2 years ago

Funny?

"You were born to deploy Kubernetes clusters."

I watch KRAZAM and I get into a deep existential crisis. I love them.

Physkal• 2 years ago

What happens with the recycle bin

sanex• 2 years ago

Give it access and find out

seeingnature• 2 years ago

It's a video feed of yourself with clippy in the bottom right corner saying "It's you"

INTPenis• 2 years ago

I'm glad I checked the comments first, not worth it.

elwell• 2 years ago

Could Krazam be behind the HN spam today?

Apocryphon2• 2 years ago

I forgive them

russellpekala• 2 years ago

How much do we need to pay this guy to quit software and just make jokes?

This guy is an icon.

the_af2• 2 years ago

It's actually two guys as far as I can tell, but yes, they are definitely awesome.

SatvikBeri• 2 years ago

Yeah, from their Patreon "We’re Ben and Shiva, two friends/mid-level software engineers who have been making dumb stuff together for over a decade."

dannyobrien• 2 years ago

Not sure he's actually /in/ software, but you can still pay them here: https://www.patreon.com/KRAZAM

tehsauce• 2 years ago

Not sure if he still is, but definitely was. Many of his videos are filmed in the Amazon NYC office.

swyx5• 2 years ago

i feel like their humor would drop if they lost touch with their real jobs. but also they prob need to do a lot of work to reassure their coworkers that specific parodies of them are off limits or something

cdchn4• 2 years ago

I saw he was doing a standup set in New York and I was very tempted to undertake the trip to see it.

swyx5• 2 years ago

saw it. lets just say they have a lot of fans but they're better youtubers than live comedians (for now)

mwmisner2• 2 years ago

IMO it was super good for a first shot! They way over did the software that they used to present the show, but I was super impressed with the polish! I have a feeling they will grow to be much better after some practice!

maxglute• 2 years ago

I don't know how much good content they can sustain full time, but 25 videos in 7 years is not enough.

tschwimmer• 2 years ago

Krazam really captures the feeling of working for a mid-sized startup in SF perfectly. The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.

ashton3142• 2 years ago

braggadocio

Thank you for showing me a new word today!

nine_zeros• 2 years ago

The pedantry, the braggadocio, and most of all the absurdity and the alienation one feels working on this stuff.

Also at FAANG and FAANG wannabes. The absurd obsession over BS and pedantic conflicts is just yucky.

indrora• 2 years ago

Because it was started by ex-FAANGers, Amazon specifically.

beezlebroxxxxxx• 2 years ago

Their video "The Hustle" [1] is such a pitch perfect shot at a very common person in tech (and in NYC/SF especially).

The "read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations in bed on my Nook - didn't understand shit!" comes back to me almost weekly reading HN comments sometimes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

satvikpendem2• 2 years ago

Obligatory microservices video: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

They're hilarious, I think only matched by Austin Nasso who does a tech roast show: https://youtube.com/@austinnasso/videos

swyx5• 2 years ago

thats a tall order given he has 3 orders of magnitude less views. i'll give it a shot but burden of proof is on you...

satvikpendem2• 2 years ago

The latter is mostly on TikTok, not YouTube, but I know HN is not too amenable to watching TikTok so I linked his YouTube.

justech• 2 years ago

He's pretty funny, but suffers from having to pump out more content for tiktok IMO. Krazam rarely uploads but it's always a banger

lupire4• 2 years ago

Kardashians have 3 orders of magnitude more views so burden of proof is on you

divbzero• 2 years ago

The top two HN posts are currently:

1. Krazam OS (krazam.tv) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40126751

2. Meta Horizon OS (meta.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115554

Both posts feature OS but with rather different look and feel.

headwayoldest• 2 years ago

Even odds on which one will still be going in 10 years time.

swyx5• 2 years ago

their "merch store" https://merch.krazam.tv/ is losing out on a lot of potential revenue by not even making a reference to their most viral videos. Who wouldn't want to rock a Galactus shirt.

can we crowdsource merch ideas for these guys pls

teaearlgraycold• 2 years ago

The hustle mug is a good idea.

andrewflnr2• 2 years ago

I think Galactus is Marvel IP, so I don't think they can do that one.

Ygg22• 2 years ago

Galactus is deprecated.

It's been replaced by Omnious all knowing all seeing user provider, made by famous xz contributor NotCIA.

SeanAnderson• 2 years ago

Right? Where is the "Take this offline" t-shirt :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAMRukKqQg

the_af2• 2 years ago

One of my favorites! I feel not enough people appreciate the "leadership sync" skit.

Often when I have a Zoom meeting I zone out and this skit plays in my head instead.

HammadB• 2 years ago

+1 I was ready to drop $$$

kaycey20222• 2 years ago

They can do omega star with iso timestamps

DustinBrett• 2 years ago

If Omega Star ever gets its shit together

PyWoody• 2 years ago

Open the terminal and enter "yahoo_cd" for a 3 part scavenger hunt for 15% off in the store! Might need to pick myself up a BALLMERCON 2019" shirt. Maybe one day Makro will be redeemed.

metadat• 2 years ago

At first I thought it was "BALLMERCOIN 2019", which would also be a kind of cool shirt.

VHRanger• 2 years ago

They'd get a cease&desist instantly if they sold a T-shirt with Galactus (an IP they don't own)

pelagicAustral• 2 years ago

They'd get deallocated

lIl-IIIl• 2 years ago

Agreed. Please give me a mug with the microservices diagram.

sph5• 2 years ago

I need one with the daily DevOps affirmations to get through my mornings.

infinitezest• 2 years ago

We're BLOCKED, OK?!

ur_tech_friend• 2 years ago

my girlfriend printed me this for my birthday https://pasteboard.co/PIa4O7tTOS6s.jpg Her parents were wildly confused

boerseth• 2 years ago

My two favorite quotes of theirs are from the same video:

- "I have delivered value... But at what cost?", being the title of the video

- "Have the KPIs of my own life failed to grow quarter over quarter?"

qiine• 2 years ago

"I have delivered value... But at what cost?" Still resonate in my head from time to time in all sort of silly context

englishspot• 2 years ago

"DevOps is a meaningful term"

pwillia7• 2 years ago

I want EKS > Galactus

ralusek• 2 years ago

"My friends and family understand what I do" (paraphrased)

Jeema101• 2 years ago

Oh definitely. Love Galactus.

1MachineElf• 2 years ago

"Use code: RFC9899 at checkout for 15% off your order"

A reference to their video IETF Celebrates The Standards [LIVE at Demuxed '22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAkAMDeo_NM

agent13• 2 years ago

Entropy Kaos System

Etesam• 2 years ago

If you want to run something that looks like windows xp/98 on your browser startpage you can try this extension that I created: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xp-newtab/ncfmlogae...

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Etesam913/xp-newtab/

arittr• 2 years ago

still one of my all time faves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

adamredwoods• 2 years ago

One of the most brilliant things ever to be born from the internet uterus. I show this every time our PM asks "why".

fabianholzer• 2 years ago

I have an extract out of it bookmarked, ready to be sent to unruly product managers, sales people and ux designers: https://www.youtube.com/embed/y8OnoxKotPQ?start=138&end=148

jmward01• 2 years ago

Fun 15 mins. They really should have made the prize code make merch cost more, not less. I think that would have fit well with the theme!

pnw• 2 years ago

The affirmations video is great. I'm still waiting for a Makro comeback as well!

peterkelly• 2 years ago

Does it support ISO timestamps?

cdchn4• 2 years ago

WE'RE BLOCKED

cosmic_quanta2• 2 years ago

I don't think so. The boot screen notes that Omega Star is still a blocker

Terr_• 2 years ago

Weird, twice now it has locked up Firefox when I try to open it.

Maybe it's somehow trying to access my clipboard, and that's triggering a separate problem I've been having when RDP'ing to a certain Linux machine in another window...

Xunxi• 2 years ago

I saw a similar design theme on Dan Brown's personal site recently and was wondering if it was one of those trends to feed off nostalgia or just a coincidence https://danb.me/

timnetworks2• 2 years ago

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

prezjordan• 2 years ago

Dan doesn't use 98.css (krazam does!). You can tell by the 45 degree angles on the button borders.

tracerbulletx• 2 years ago

This has been a trend for at least 15 years.

omnibrain• 2 years ago

I wondered why Dan Brown https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown would have such a website...

ahyc• 2 years ago

banger

data_ders• 2 years ago

terminal wants me to FIND THE FIRST CODE IN THE SYLLABUS. where?!?!

jdmarble• 2 years ago

Hint: do something you would normally never do on something you normally never even notice.

CommitSyn• 2 years ago

Okay I clicked on an ad. It gave me a discount code, but that's not the first puzzle solution.

Crier1002• 2 years ago

i just love the details on this one. thanks for sharing!

tippytippytango• 2 years ago

Wow, I fully expected that to destroy my browser history. Imagine my shock when I clicked back and ended up back on HN. Great work.

mixmastamyk• 2 years ago

Ha, I made a boot-up sequence on my site in the mid-90s. Brings back the memories.

agocin• 2 years ago

https://www.srenity.online/

Panoramix• 2 years ago

Straight to the bookmarks

OisinMoran• 2 years ago

Oh wow, this is giving very strong Severance vibes!

satchlj• 2 years ago

spent way too long looking for that code in the syllabus

bsnnkv• 2 years ago

This really is the peak of user interface design. I will never be convinced otherwise.

hypertexthero• 2 years ago

“You were born to deploy Kubernetes.”

LOL

an_aparallel• 2 years ago

im having a moment - i'm an absolute dead ringer for Ben Burke..its freaking me out XD Also they are outrageously funny!

smrtinsert2• 2 years ago

I always get one enter away from posting the "I've brought value but at what cost" video in my company slack but then I chicken out.

cdchn4• 2 years ago

Post the "Leadership Sync" video after an executive shakeup.

nxobject• 2 years ago

In a world of people with side projects on GitHub, be the guy with a satire YouTube page.

cdchn4• 2 years ago

Which one looks better on your resume?

lupire4• 2 years ago

eptcyka• 2 years ago

Much better than HorizonOS.

makach• 2 years ago

I clicked on trash and found exactly what I was looking for

aftergibson• 2 years ago

Nicely done.

sph5• 2 years ago

I would be surprised if the KRAZAM guys did not have an HN account. They are so plugged in the Silicon Valley startup life.

Now I want to see a video from them that references or is about Hacker News.

vundercind2• 2 years ago

HN may be too easy to read as parody, to parody it…

yolkedgeek• 2 years ago

yay go Krazam! absolutely love their videos, their videos are THE inside jokes between me and my co-workers.

devX3• 2 years ago

legendary

beefsack• 2 years ago

Open the Terminal and type help to start a puzzle, not much to it but it was a bit of silly fun!

redbell2• 2 years ago

Somehow, unrelated.. With the rise of such cool OS projects like Puter[1], DaedalOS [2] et al. [3], with Krazam being one of them, I can't help but dream of the day when the .os TLD for operating systems is introduced. I believe it would make more sense to use/read krazam.os rather than krazam.tv.

About a year ago, new TLDs were introduced [4], with .zip and .mov being the most popular. However, the .os TLD wasn't on the list, which was disappointing for me!

I'm uncertain about the criteria that determine whether a TLD is a good candidate, and I may be the only one emotionally attached to the idea of a .os TLD. Nevertheless, the introduction of the .zip TLD faced numerous complaints[5],[6], particularly regarding security concerns.

____________________________

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838179

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38830132 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753

3. https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

4. https://fieldeffect.com/blog/what-you-should-know-about-the-...

5. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-zip-domai...

6. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/05/zip-domains

redsolver• 2 years ago

Afaik all 2-letter TLDs are ccTLDs, which means they must be a country code of some country and are managed by it. There's no country with "os" yet, so to make the TLD available one would need to found a new country first!

throwaway11460• 2 years ago

Let's call it the Oasis of Servers. I guess we could find an old oil platform or something...

redbell2• 2 years ago

Oh, thanks for the clarification! I didn't thought about this.

nisegami• 2 years ago

I've been of the opinion for a while now that they should just go ahead and make all 26^2 two letter tlds available. Would be neat.

SigmundurM• 2 years ago

I may be wrong, but I believe all 2 letter TLDs are ccTLDs. All none ccTLDs would have to be 3 characters or longer.

hahamaster• 2 years ago

Then it's .ops

kebman• 2 years ago

I like the Safe Spaces. Such heart warming contents! Also, the joke I told in the meeting WAS really funny!

croon• 2 years ago

Came to say the same thing (about your joke of course). The Safe Space was genuinely both very funny and insightful.

smnscu• 2 years ago

Enjoy https://www.srenity.online/

blauditore2• 2 years ago

I wonder where that sound/song is coming from, is there a Youtube channel or similar?

average_r_user• 2 years ago

I'm still using picchi 1.0 to improve my deployment pipeline by 20%

joneil• 2 years ago

The class name on the HTML element definitely makes me want to start using more expressive class names in my code. (Doesn't seem I'm able to copy/paste it into a Hacker News comment)

lovegrenoble• 2 years ago

Nice old-school look

blauditore2• 2 years ago

The binary code at boot time spells "hello world s":

  01101000 01100101
  01101100 01101100
  01101111 00100000
  01110111 01101111
  01110010 01101100
  01100100 00100000
  01110011

syx• 2 years ago

my favorite part of the boot screen is: `Circadian Rhythm :not good`

deelowe2• 2 years ago

What the "s" at the end?

canadiantim• 2 years ago

Saying hello to multiple worlds

sergiotapia• 2 years ago

Try `sudo rm -rf /` lol

louwrentius• 2 years ago

Devops is a meaningful term

phone8675309• 2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsDk8wjRPs from them kills me every time

Doubly funny when it first came out because IIRC Slackware ha just released a new version

carimura• 2 years ago

The syllabus reminds me of HyperCard

throwaway20372• 2 years ago

I am changing my login ID to MilleniumMasterX2!

Here is a nice Easter egg that I found:

Open the terminal. Type help. Then type yahoo_cd

    > Company merch exists to provide an illusion of purpose to your meaningless life.

This guy should have a Comedy Central show by now.

tmarsden• 2 years ago

Anyone know if Omegastar can support ISO timestamps yet?

zaphod420• 2 years ago

First thing I clicked on was Safe Space. LOL!!!!! I love it!

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