Gift guides

Gift guides for developers and other technical people: goodbye, retirement, graduation, birthday, and Secret Santa.

1. Gifts for developersGifts for developers are hard because the useful tools are already on the desk. Give a famous program, drawn as one colored bar per line, on a mug or a white tee.
2. Gifts for technical peopleGifts for technical people are often another gadget. This catalog is code, drawn as bars. It fits an SRE, a sysadmin, or an engineer who has waited on a machine to boot.
3. A goodbye gift for a developerA goodbye gift for a developer has to leave the building with them. A mug of the program the team actually used can. The farewell itself stays in the card.
4. A retirement gift for an engineerA retirement gift for an engineer should be as old as the career, or exactly the work the career was. The catalog has both, drawn as bars on a mug.
5. A graduation gift for a programmerA graduation gift for a computer science student should outlast the laptop the first employer issues. Give the first program they were shown, drawn as bars on a mug.
6. Secret Santa for a developerSecret Santa gifts for developers have to be obvious while the paper is still on the floor. A short famous program, drawn as bars on a mug or a white tee, is obvious.
7. A birthday gift for a programmerA birthday gift for a programmer can be the program they will not stop quoting. Give that one, as bars on a mug or a white tee.
8. Which piece to giveA programmer mug should be the right program. This page maps the person you are buying for to one of the sixteen pieces, each drawn as bars on a mug or a white tee.