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For those confused, this is basically a fan-fic in reference to this piece [0] from McSweeney's

0: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-port...

I was like "Wasn't that years ago?" - a friend of a friend did her PhD on stuff related to AO3.

I'm glad I read the fanfic first and the original later.

They are both wonderful but the complete confusion caused by reading the email thread with zero context was an added joy, while the FAQ were hilarious anyway.

I liked this one, which included an offhand reference to SMB share incompatibility:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-comments-are-in-the-g...

Sweet shit. That rings true.

We have so many tools at work with significantly-overlapping functionality, but use like a different 10% of each one’s features. My god, just pick a few and consolidate. The lost productivity is enormous.

Multiple tools with issue trackers. Multiple tools with secrets management. Multiple tools with ci pipelines. Multiple code repo hosts. Multiple project management systems. Multiple container and package registries. Multiple code vuln scanners. Messaging systems. Logging & alerting systems. Documentation hosts. FFS a few of our tools do all of those. But that’s like seven or eight different tools, as we use them.

The process of getting anything to work, or finding any given piece of info, often looks like your linked piece.

Barnett.edu is likely a reference to Barnett College, one of the fictional institutions where Indiana Jones was faculty. Might explain his dislike of snakes!

I’m part of an artist’s collective, and this really captures the spirit of how we sometimes spend our holidays.

I really like the “Department of Psychoceramics” part.

"People say he is a little beside himself, or rather, if he has any such Thing as Brains, they are really crackt." Also see https://www.halfbakery.com/

I kinda hope "committee provided snake" will become a meme. I would like this on a t-shirt.

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