Over the last couple of weeks, I've spent more time in WordPress than I have for the last few years.
I used to spend 8-10 hours a day doing WordPress development. Got real sick of it, real quick.
Returning to it now is kind of nice. Hello Darkness, my old friend. I've come to use WordPress again.
Still love that this is called internally: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dangit
@jonathansampson I absolutely love scrolling through line after line of cold, dispassionate source code, and then running across some quirky comment or function.
Like, hey yeah, that's right, an actual human made this.
(this is also why I was obsessed with easter eggs when I was a teenager—I knew the names of Apple software engineers like normal kids knew baseball players.)
@jonathansampson @csilverman It's too had fears over viruses have more or less ended software Easter eggs
@duck57 There were some good ones back in the days; if you held Alt when visiting Help>About in Photoshop, the application would burp (or something along those lines). Hilarious to a teen :) @csilverman
@jonathansampson @duck57 Mac OS, prior to X, was *full* of them. Hold down Option and select "About" for any given app, and you had a good chance of finding something. (There really was a belch hidden in the Sound control panel—this was one of the better ones.)
You definitely don't see them much any more, and it's a shame. I wonder if Apple's newfound popularity and widespread usage makes them more worried about, say, stuff like this:
@csilverman @jonathansampson Microsoft had eggs that seemed to have more effort put into them than the actual software.
@csilverman @jonathansampson I have become too jaded. I only see beauty in systems now. Truly clever functions are rare...
@csilverman Great point. Sobering reminders that humans were involved are so important. IIRC, there was an easter egg in the Windows 95 (or 98?) screensaver that would show the names of the developers involved.