Developers Buy Expensive Gear, Wear Free Shirts

Devs in tech will literally buy a maxed out MacBook Pro and a Herman Miller chair because "I spend 30-40% of my life using this, the expense is justified" and then spend 24/7 in the same couple of awfully fitting T-shirts they got for free from some startup 5 years ago.

A tweet jokes that tech developers justify spending heavily on premium work equipment because they use it constantly, yet wear the same badly fitting T-shirts they received free from a startup years ago. The punchline contrasts carefully optimized, expensive tools with careless, cheap clothing, poking fun at startup and developer culture. EN: A tweet jokes that tech developers justify spending heavily on premium work equipment because they use it constantly, yet wear the same badly fitting T-shirts they received free from a startup years ago. The punchline contrasts carefully optimized, expensive tools with careless, cheap clothing, poking fun at startup and developer culture.

• @gentoomemes / 8097 2023-12-22