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Misbrands

by 4684499 on 12/24/21, 10:30 AM with 114 comments

  • by numlock86 on 12/24/21, 12:05 PM

    Being in a work environment where quite a lot of people have stickers on their laptop lids I am pretty confident you'd have to actively point at it and be like "See? That's the joke." for someone to even notice it because people just don't pay that much attention to it. It's too subtile, but I get that's the point.
  • by yiksanchan on 12/24/21, 1:19 PM

  • by meepmorp on 12/24/21, 11:27 AM

    I found the vim/vscode one especially obnoxious. OTOH, it took me a while to work out what was 'wrong' with the Debian/Ubuntu one. Maybe there's some unconscious biases at play.
  • by southerntofu on 12/24/21, 11:52 AM

    Not on the homepage logo, but i really loved the rusty gopher, or whatever this thing from hell should be called: https://github.com/mkrl/misbrands/blob/master/ferris.svg
  • by tupac_speedrap on 12/24/21, 11:32 AM

    The JavaScript one is funny. To be honest they should have picked a different name for JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java.
  • by smarx007 on 12/24/21, 3:18 PM

    I felt bad that PHP and Django were unfairly left out in the RoR misbrand (well, Wordpress is written in PHP but that looked a bit remote), so I decided to fix that: https://imgur.com/a/quN1aEa. Now THAT should make someone's blood boil.

    (sorry for the aliasing, the font was taken from a screenshot)

  • by afandian on 12/24/21, 11:24 AM

  • by logotype on 12/24/21, 1:43 PM

    Never understood why people put stickers on their laptops, to me it seems like a cargo cult. Oh, you’re using this trendy library? Are you a brogrammer or a programmer? Why is libraries and technologies trendy anyway, so much time has been wasted building something using the wrong tool for the job. It also ruins the design of the laptop, just like a phone case does. Maybe I’m just old.
  • by junon on 12/24/21, 11:24 AM

    Just saw these on Twitter the other day and they are heinous. I don't think I've ever been so annoyed by a sticker before.

    Great job! :D

  • by tapia on 12/24/21, 2:45 PM

    I just had to laugh at loud when I opened the page and saw the Vim logo with Vscode written in it. I was not expecting it. Thanks for this :D
  • by specialist on 12/24/21, 2:06 PM

    I used to want to personalize my laptops. Due to same vague notion it'd reduce confusion in the office. (Which proved to not be a problem.)

    Not big on product stickers. Because "No Logo".

    I haven't liked any of the cases I've tried. Among other problems, accumulation of grit and scuz.

    I once tried that spray rubber stuff (on an old sacrificial laptop). PlastiDip? Didn't work well. I'm dumb about this stuff. Someone with more experience could probably make it "nice". I plugged stuff into the ports I cared about. Then tried to tidy all the edges with an exacto knife. Looked terrible.

    You know those fancy vinyl car wraps? I keep expecting someone to do that for laptops.

  • by omnicognate on 12/24/21, 12:04 PM

    I get a couple of these and the logos involved in most of the others are familiar but I can't remember enough to figure them out.

    Is there an explanation anywhere, or is someone willing to provide one?

  • by embik on 12/24/21, 11:25 AM

    I love how much I hate this.
  • by stayfrosty420 on 12/24/21, 11:33 AM

    VScode one is the best by far
  • by Hippocrates on 12/24/21, 11:58 AM

    This could get somebody hurt.
  • by opk on 12/24/21, 12:49 PM

    It has always irked me that the oh my zsh logo uses a bash style `$` prompt.
  • by nedp on 12/24/21, 1:57 PM

    I don't know if it's just me by I would love to have these as t-shirts. I would buy them all in a heartbeat. Great for conversation starter or as a prank to my fellow CS friends lol
  • by MikusR on 12/24/21, 11:50 AM

    The logos are funny, but where do people put those stickers?
  • by adenozine on 12/24/21, 12:34 PM

    Thanks, I hate it.

    The gopher ferris one is genius.

  • by gnz11 on 12/24/21, 12:32 PM

    Shouldn't the RoR sticker use the Django font?
  • by anyfactor on 12/24/21, 2:24 PM

    Someone should make one for the classic, "my other computer is your computer". God I hate that sticker.
  • by harel on 12/26/21, 8:30 PM

    It took me longer than I care to admit to "get it".
  • by alanlammiman on 12/24/21, 12:25 PM

    These should be NFTs.
  • by albert_e on 12/24/21, 1:09 PM

    no love for apache projects?

    once can go to town with all the frameworks in big data ecosystem

  • by markus_zhang on 12/24/21, 1:22 PM

    Why do people hate Ubuntu and VSCode?