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Tag: xkcd

  • Screenshot of PleaseFixThisSite.com, featuring all of the design sins described below.

    Please Fix This Site? Okay!

    PleaseFixThisSite.com is a funny web-based take on that XKCD comic about extorting graphic designers who hate your design choices. But you don't actually need to pay the extortionist to "fix" their site. Just have your userscript manager run a few lines of my code, and the effect is much the same.

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    • posted 18 July, 2025
  • Adapted version of XKCD comic #927. Titled: How WP plugins proliferate (see: authentication, crossposting, galleries, etc.). Situation: there are 14 competing WordPress plugins. Engineers in conversation agree that 14 is ridiculous and commit to developing a unified plugin that covers everybody's use cases. Result: there are now 15 competing WordPress plugins.

    Almost nerdsniped myself when I discovered several #WordPress plugins that didn't quite do what I needed. Considered writing an overarching one to "solve" the problem. Then I remembered @xkcd comic 927...

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    • posted 26 May, 2022
  • Graph showing that recent events matter a lot, but rapidly tail off for a while before levelling out again as they become long-ago events.

    It's 2020 and you're in the future

    Wait But Why produces another one of those lists of things that are now closer to some-other-event than today, and Dan passes comment on their process.

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    • posted 6 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Relevant XKCD

    Relevant XKCD



    Thomas Park
    The most-relevant relevant XKCD ever. Click through for the full awesome.

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    • posted 26 February, 2019
  • XKCD: Particle Properties

    Particle Properties



    XKCD

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    • posted 12 July, 2017
  • XKCD: Random Obsessions

    Random Obsessions



    XKCD

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    • posted 18 May, 2017
  • XKCD: Earth Temperature Timeline

    Earth Temperature Timeline



    XKCD

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    • posted 12 September, 2016
  • Image representing post: Satisfied

    Satisfied

    I saw XKCD #584 - "Unsatisfied" - this morning. In the comic (in a slightly Sliding Doors way), a man chooses between one of two lovers, and spends the rest of his life thinking about the other one in a "what if" kind-of way, leaving him ultimately unsatisfied with his life, regardless of which he โ€ฆ

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    • posted 15 May, 2009
  • An XKCD Moment

    As a song came on the radio (well, Club 977 - The 80s Channel), Ruth laughed. "What?" I asked.

    "This song just reminded me of a webcomic I read today about song mash-ups," she replied.

    "Oh yeah. I read that one. Which webcomic was it?"

    "I don't remember."

    It was only when we started thinking in terms of Venn โ€ฆ

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    • posted 30 April, 2009

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