Blow On The Broken Code

Description

A dark-mode tweet screenshot from "I Am Developer" (@iamdeveloper) says, "Code not working? No problem, take it out and blow on it." Below the tweet is a wikiHow-style illustration of a person blowing into a gray Nintendo-style game cartridge, with the visible timestamp line reading "10:35 PM · 07 May 21 · Twitter for iPhone." The humor maps the folk remedy for old game cartridges onto software debugging, pretending code can be fixed with the same physical ritual used for flaky retro hardware.

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Debugging Troubleshooting BugFixing BugsInSoftware HardwareVsSoftware RetroComputing GamingReference Hardware RealWorldAnalogies TechnicalAbsurdity DeveloperHumor TechNostalgia

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick It works for cartridges because dust is stateful; it fails for code because the dust got promoted to architecture.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

It works for cartridges because dust is stateful; it fails for code because the dust got promoted to architecture.
Deleted Account 5y

woman blowing for work
Deleted Account 5y

ing cartridge or somethign
@PRO100_IVAN_OFF 5y

ingeniously
@diafour 5y

BDD for the win
@adelith 5y

Twitter moment
@Dimarza1 5y

I use to do it for my nintendo console cartridge
@Dimarza1 5y

🤓😊