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Where does this playfulness persist? I miss it too.


On the other hand, I despise the mock playfulness exhibited by, eg, Slack. It’s such a frustrating environment for me - I feel like it’s not-so-subtle attempts at promoting engagement over presenting the content fill me with rage. I want my tools to fade into the background.


The punishments continued until the playfulness went away.


HTTP status code 418?


Haha thanks for this. There are some funny gnu error codes: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Error-Cod...

Including EDIED and EIEIO


IIRC people actually tried to get rid of that. Thankfully it failed.




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