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 selling these posters is really an experiment -- I don't know if we'll ever print another poster yet! we printed 500 of this poster and I think if we sell 100-150 of them I’ll call it a success. so far we've sold 30 so it's looking good! https://store.wizardzines.com/products/poster-debugging-manifesto 25 comments
 @b0rk Please don't rush mailing mine; I'm traveling through the end of the month. I think I'm gonna frame it for my home office 😆 @trochee awesome thanks! it should ship within a week or so no matter what, we don’t have much control over that   @b0rk this poster is dope. If I worked with a team colocated I would have this up for everyone.  @b0rk I’m a fan of your zines and of Riso and will be delighted to put this on my wall. @b0rk So glad that #3 is immediately followed by #4. My "good advice and maxims for programmers" from 199? has "Looking for a compiler bug is the strategy of LAST resort. LAST resort." (Most of it is not actually good advice, but I think that bit holds up.) @flooey @b0rk https://blog.plover.com/prog/compiler-error.html "I feel as though I have accidentally spotted the Loch Ness Monster, or Bigfoot, or something like that, a strange and legendary monster that until now I thought most likely didn't exist." @b0rk Here's Jeff Atwood's version of this, also inferior to your way of expressing it: "The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault". https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-first-rule-of-programming-its-always-your-fault/ @mjd yeah in general I find that debugging advice is often very… condescending? and it makes me mad @swiftone @b0rk I call that "the Finger of Blame". My kid was taking a programming class last year and I explained: "The goal here is to point the Finger of Blame: What part of the code is really responsible for the problem? First you accuse the code that actually prints the wrong result. Then that code says “Nuh uh, it was like that when I got it, go blame that other guy that gave it to me.” Eventually you find the smoking gun." Julia would probably have a less recriminatory way of putting it. @b0rk I think 99% of the people in the world would have written a version of this that I had some cranky but significant objection to. I saw the title and my heart sank. Then I saw it was from you and felt a glimmer of hope. And then it made me happy. Thanks for being a shining city on a hill. @b0rk Does free shipping over $50 count with the poster too? Or is it the exception? @b0rk Ooo, I love this! Been looking for a poster to put behind my desk in the new office and this is perfect. also if you love the debugging manifesto poster I'd recommend checking out Inner Loop Press's other work at https://store.innerloop.press/, Tanya has so many incredible posters and zines |
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@b0rk I’d buy this and the Git Cheatsheet if they could be shipped to the UK cheaply. 😢