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Gender Reveal: It's a Daemon!
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Gender Reveal: It's a Daemon!

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A photo from a gender reveal party with the caption 'When it's a programmer..'. The scene features a smiling couple and a shocked bystander. The expectant mother holds a smoke flare that is emitting thick black smoke, despite pink decorations and a 'GIRL' sign in the background. The humor comes from reinterpreting the unexpected black smoke through a programmer's lens. Instead of a simple failure, the black smoke is jokingly identified with developer-centric concepts like 'dark mode', a critical system error, a failed compilation, or, more cleverly, the birth of a 'daemon' process. The shocked look on the bystander's face perfectly captures the reaction to this catastrophic, yet nerdy, outcome

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick It's not a boy or a girl, it's a daemon process. Now we just have to hope it doesn't get orphaned and become a zombie
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    It's not a boy or a girl, it's a daemon process. Now we just have to hope it doesn't get orphaned and become a zombie

  2. Anonymous

    Someone added ‘NonBinary’ to the Gender enum but forgot to update the switch - so the smoke test hit default: emitBlackSmoke();

  3. Anonymous

    The smoke is just the Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling to handle the gender reveal microservice that somehow required 47 dependencies and a Redis cache

  4. Anonymous

    Ah yes, the classic programmer gender reveal: they were expecting a simple boolean output (pink = true), but someone deployed to production without testing and now we're dealing with a critical incident generating massive error logs. The smoke isn't pink or blue - it's the color of a failed deployment at 3 AM. Clearly someone forgot to handle the edge case where the reveal() function throws an UnexpectedExplosionException. This is what happens when you skip the staging environment and your CI/CD pipeline has zero rollback strategy

  5. Anonymous

    Shipping the gender reveal through CI seemed fine - staging had COLOR=pink, prod missed the env var and defaulted to #000; congratulations, it’s a postmortem

  6. Anonymous

    Dev took 'smoke test' post-deployment too literally - now it's a full-on incident

  7. Anonymous

    Only a programmer’s gender reveal doubles as a deploy: black smoke = failed build - someone took “smoke test” literally and left the Terraform module pointed at prod

  8. Deleted Account 4y

    ?

    1. @beton_kruglosu_totchno 4y

      somehow in USA gender reveal is a party event on which fuckton of cringe is produced and gender is signalled in some dumb way on this photo the colour of the smoke was supposed to rrveal gender

      1. @RiedleroD 4y

        I don't get all that anyway - over here in Austria, we don't have anything like this. No gender reveal party, no 'baby shower' as it seems to be called, and no party after the birth either. Sure, we do congratulate the mother & give her gifts, but there's no separate party for that. It seems pretentious to me that the simple act of fucking deserves a party to be thrown. rant over lol

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          had to get that out though, it just seems so bizarre to me.

  9. @fioui 4y

    Okey,and?

  10. @nb30ac 4y

    Fire on a prod :D

  11. @nb30ac 4y

    At friday

  12. @dsmagikswsa 4y

    ?

  13. @waifu_anton 4y

    No no, she did not cheat with me. Black color is accidental

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

      Loooool

  14. @affirvega 4y

    OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I get it now!

  15. @callofvoid0 4y

    is that stick running Android Studio?

  16. @DDmitras 4y

    obvious brigade please

    1. @sylfn 4y

      did you mean explanation squad (Пояснительная бригада)?

      1. @DDmitras 4y

        A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of three to six battalions plus supporting elements. Not squad definitely.

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          it's a phrase, it doesn't have to be literally correct to convey the same meaning.

          1. @DDmitras 4y

            The original phrase sounds exactly, so, if you please, repeat it accordingly to original

            1. @RiedleroD 4y

              not sure what you mean by that

              1. @DDmitras 4y

                In that case you're wrong breaking into this discussion .

            2. @sylfn 4y

              you translate meaning, and not words

              1. @DDmitras 4y

                Me?

        2. @AlihatorU 4y

          You were just trying to translate a popular expression

          1. @DDmitras 4y

            You're wrong. It's s t a b l e expression.

            1. @AlihatorU 4y

              This is something from biology according to the first google's page

              1. @DDmitras 4y

                sad to hear

  17. @DDmitras 4y

    google what that means

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