DevMeme · Changelog
A field guide, not just a feed
What changed
DevMeme is now two things. The feed, and a written layer around it: 27 pages that start from a job you actually have rather than from whatever shipped most recently.
Everything lives under /resources.
What is in it
Role guides — /for collects memes around recognisable work situations rather than renaming a category feed. There are pages for DevOps engineers, junior developers, and non-programmers who have to live with us.
Comparisons — /compare puts DevMeme against Imgflip, ProgrammerHumor.io, and Reddit’s r/ProgrammerHumor on the same jobs. These are dated observations with sources and qualifications attached, not a leaderboard where we happen to win.
Alternatives — /alternatives is the honest version of the same question. If you want discussion, or meme creation, or origin research, another site is the better answer, and these pages say so.
Docs — /docs explains how the site actually behaves: searching, browsing by category and tag, saving memes. Prerequisites, steps, expected result, and the limits.
Agent docs — /docs/agents documents the supported workflows for automated readers: the public HTML surface and RSS. It deliberately stops short of presenting internal routes as an API, because they are not one.
Migration — /migrate covers moving guest activity into a real account. It is same-browser only, and the page is specific about what does not come along.
Industries — /industries connects the joke to the constraint that produced it, for cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and fintech.
Being straight about the gaps
/faq is currently one page describing when a standalone answer earns its own page. There are no FAQ leaf pages yet. A question gets published when it recurs, has real supporting material, is not already owned by another page, and a human approves it.
Related resources
- Deep dives became real articlesThe long explanation under a meme now has its own page at /deepdive/<slug>, with section navigation, the meme kept as context, and links to related deep dives. 6,676 of them are published.
- Shared links stopped looking brokenA pasted DevMeme link now shows a branded preview card with the meme, its category and title, always points at a readable canonical URL, and puts DevMeme first in the browser tab.
Commits
The changes described above, as they landed in the repository.
- 04955e0
- 62e8a36
Real reader questions
- Are the comparisons neutral?
- They are dated observations, not a ranking. Every claim carries a checked date, a qualification, a source link, and a way to report a correction.
- Is there an API for automated readers?
- No. The agent docs cover supported public HTML and RSS workflows. The internal /api/* routes are not a public contract and may change without notice.