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A grid of twelve parody O'Reilly book covers, each with an animal engraving and a colored title box. Titles: Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow; Googling the Error Message; Trying Stuff Until it Works; Writing Code that Nobody Else Can Read; The Guy Who Wrote This Is Gone; Blaming the User; Forgetting How Your Own Code Works; Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens; Vague Understanding of Computer Science;…

O RLY? Programmer Book Covers for Coding Life

Parody O'Reilly 'O RLY?' covers roast programmer habits like copying from Stack Overflow and useless git commits, a nerdy throwback to the animal-covered tech manuals.

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A grid of twelve parody O'Reilly book covers, each with an animal engraving and a colored title box. Titles: Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow; Googling the Error Message; Trying Stuff Until it Works; Writing Code that Nobody Else Can Read; The Guy Who Wrote This Is Gone; Blaming the User; Forgetting How Your Own Code Works; Changing Stuff and Seeing What Happens; Vague Understanding of Computer Science;…

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A 3x3 alignment chart on a black background, each square a portrait of a game industry figure with a quote. LAWFUL GOOD: "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever." NEUTRAL GOOD: "I get about 10,000 emails each time we release a game, and while I can't respond to all of them, I do read all of them." CHAOTIC GOOD: "As long as there's at least one publisher out there who is interested in… Hand-drawn iceberg with a small boat beside it. A person on the boat says: "What say you first mate? O ideal days...?" Above water: "This Stuff..." with checkboxes "Level of Effort" and "Complexity". Below: "And... Other Stuff..." with 24 checklist items such as Multi-tasking, Handoffs, Approvals, Meetings, Morale, Compliance. Bold black sans-serif text on a white background reads "Fuck it," then a black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration of a sailing ship with billowing sails on waves, then "it." The ship stands in for the word "ship." A 5x5 grid of photos. Column headings across the top: DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, QA, SYSADMINS. Row labels down the left: SEEN BY DEVELOPERS, SEEN BY DESIGNERS, SEEN BY PROJECT MANAGERS, SEEN BY QA, SEEN BY SYSADMINS. Each cell shows a stock or pop-culture photo, such as a scientist, a toddler with paintbrushes, a man in a black turtleneck, a prisoner behind bars, and a cartoon man flipping the bird.

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