Tag: comic
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How the European heatwave fucked me up
I've been somewhat-offline for the last few days, after a heatwave lead to a heat illness lead to an opportunistic infection lead to me lying in bed and groaning. But I'm getting back to normal, slowly.
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Two Croissants
I woke up with this in my head and had to draw it.
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The Dungeon of Dark Patterns
The latest episode of webcomic Mini Fantasy Theater - The Dungeon of Dark Patterns - is just excellent.
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My 12-year-old's persuaded me to take her to MegaConLive London this weekend.
As somebody who doesn't pay much attention to the pop culture circles represented by such an event (and hasn't for 15+ years, or whenever it was that Asdfbook came out?)... have you got any advice for me, Internet?
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This year it'll be 10 years since webcomic A Softer World ended its 12-year run. If you missed it, you can still go back and read them all, starting from asofterworld.com/index.php?id=1
But in the meantime, here's one of my very favourites:
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![Comic comparing 'Devs Then' to 'Devs Now'. The 'Devs Then' are illustrated as muscular men, with captions 'Writes code without AI or Stack Overflow', 'Builds entire games in Assembly', 'Crafts mission-critical code fo [sic] Moon landing', and 'Fixes memory leaks by tweaking pointers'. The 'Devs Now' are illustrated with badly-drawn, somewhat-stupid-looking faces and captioned 'Googles how to center a div in 2025?', 'ChatGPT please fix my syntax error', 'Cannot exit vim', and 'Fixes one bug, creates three new ones'.](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2025/02/devs-then-devs-now-lieo-720x480.jpg#25882)
AI Is Reshaping Software Engineering — But There’s a Catch…
Eduaro Ordax is concerned that less-experienced developers will (be encouraged to) use AI as a crutch rather than learning programming fundamentals. I have similar and related concerns, and I'm still of the opinion that we just don't know how to teach people to program!
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Monday Punday
For almost a year I've been slowly working my way through the archives of Monday Punday, a webcomic which challenges the reader to solve picture-based pun puzzles. Give it a go!
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Trump's Strategy
I've worked out what convicted felon Donald Trump's endgame strategy is! And I can explain it... through the medium of a comic in the art style of Sid Meier's Civilization!
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Sex With Monsters
Just in time for Halloween, this comic (published via the ever-excellent Oh Joy Sex Toy) is fundamentally pretty silly... and yet still manages to touch upon important concepts of safer sex, consent, aftercare etc.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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Groundhog Day
After a break of nine and a half years, webcomic Octopuns is back!
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New Far Side in FreshRSS
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too.
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Subscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping
FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward.
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Ideal #2 (SMBC)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
The SMBC comic that came out this weekend was perhaps the best birthday present the Internet could provide. -
The Far Side in FreshRSS
The proxy I implemented to bypass The Far Side's lack of an RSS feed is now unnecessary, because FreshRSS is better than ever.