Programmer excuses
programmerexcuses.com
Programmer excuses
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#2git commit -m "$(curl -s programmerexcuses.com | sed -n '/>/{s/]>//g;p}')"
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#3Reminded of the old BOFH calendar with daily excuses: "Sunspots."
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#4git commit -m "$(curl -s programmerexcuses.com | sed -n '/ >/{s/ ] >//g;p}')"
I would prefer it to give just the message when the request contains the `Accept: text/plain` header.
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#5Nice site, but seems weird wrapping the text in a and wrapping that in a center. As somebody else said on the comments, why couldn't be just plain text/have a plain text header?
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#612 months ago while I was bored on a SFO to JFK flight I made a clone relevant to where I was working at the time http://frsexcuses.com which got featured by 9to5Mac [1] and still to this day gets a little bit of traffic as the domain is about to expire
[1]: http://9to5mac.com/2013/08/02/frs-excuses-website-showcases-...
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#7I got 500 Internal Server Error with an additional 404 Not Found for the ErrorDocument, I had to wonder if that was a real excuse or genuine server error! Theirs a certain amount of irony to it anyway.
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#8On one reload I got a standard internal server error message. Next reload it was gone. If that was on purpose, it is a nice touch.
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#9Great idea, but after trying it dozen times I still didn't get the most common excuse: "works fine on my machine"
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#10That's an interesting webpage. it has a hidden google ads-field in an iframe. I'm not web-savy enough to fully understand how it works.
The "click me as often as you can" contents for sure generate a lot of clicks. genius!