fortunes-programmerhumor

A collection of programmer humor "few-liners" jokes I've come across. They aren't necessarily very funny, but I wanted to have my own list of fortunes piped through lolcat. 🌈

Usage

You would want to make sure you have the fortune package on your operating system. It can generally be installed with modern package managers. See fortune-mod for a maintained version.

# Debian based
apt-get install fortune-mod

# Arch linux
pacman -S fortune-mod

# Mac
brew install fortune

Clone this repository

git clone [email protected]:marius815/fortunes-programmerhumor.git

Create the data file

cd fortunes-programmerhumor
sh build.sh

Then copy the files located in output/ into the fortune data directory (generally /usr/share/games/fortunes)

cp output/programmerhumor* /usr/share/games/fortunes/

Run the following command and prepare to lightly blow some air out of your nose 😤

fortune programmerhumor
Wanna hear a UDP joke? You might not get it.