Big Rewrite (American Pie parody)

A musical parody of Don McLean's "American Pie" about the history of programming and software development.

[nerdy_crawfish]

"Though no-one's sure what devops really means, "
As someone in 'devops' that one cut deep.

[jonathanwilson]

Pure genius! "I couldn't get tech support on the phone. That's the point when I wish I'd known, they'd done, a big rewrite".

[susmitvengurlekar]

It's gonna compile first time. It's gonna compile first time. It's gonna compile first time. Dream of everyone. It's gonna compile first time

[englishmotherfucker]

A story of cs told with a story of rock and roll, even some of time periods overlap.

This is beautyful

[Jeskelech]

Oddly this song taught me something more about how to handle stored values and loops in assembler...

Call it provoking "Thinking outside of the box"

"It didn't work in IE5" The web developers hell, IE! uheuheuheuhheueuheu

[DimitarVeljanovski-fv]

From the perspective of someone who has been around the industry for a couple of years, climbed all the way to senior level, it gives me shivers how close this is to the actual experience.

[MSBWilson]

Case in point from my brother:
"For the [brand x] plugins, we autogenerate some C++ code from an XML parameter definition using PHP, and do some other autogeneration of a defaults file in JSON using grunt (Javascript) from the same XML. Oh, and then there are the ant scripts (whose format is XML) to run builds in Jenkins. And our code assets archival system in Python."

[trulyspinach]

This is such a masterpiece and deserves more views

[cyharyanto]

Summarizing 50 years of software better than any book 🎉

[KiSmooth]

This song describes my hole career as a software engineer :D

This is like a history of programming and infrastructure :) Very nice!

[paolo-e-basta]

thanks for writing my bio, and the story goes on! i'm laughing like never before, thanks buddy

[kissamakis]

Wonderful song.

1:34 "Wait, that's not C64 but THEC64 Mini - an emulator box w/o a functional keyboard. Pretty convincing shell, apparently."
2:11 "That's probably MSX-BASIC or SV-BASIC in that code list; LINE, STRIG, PUT SPRITE and the typeface are telling."

[MJ-xljz]

Other songs of yours had more repetition in the lyrics, which made the humor more short-lived IMO, but this one is amazing

[coopersmill]

Ah the commodore, Assembler and the optocoupler... Reusing electrons and taking a nap waiting for the run to finish.

[arnbrandy]

Did I feel emotional with the Turbo Pascal screenshot? Maybe, maybe not, we will never know.

[AndersJackson]

I sooo recognize this. Thanks.
And yes, all the time is was supposed to compile at first time. :-)

[acboesefrau]

oh I currently have to maintain 11 year old legacy code written by someone under hight preassure, who was never given time for refactoring and currently unreachable in parental leave. My team lead always says "Don't refactor, it will crash!!" Yea but I always look like Winnie Pooh in this video and refactor to have a minimal chance in understanding what happens in a class with 4000 lines of code or a method containing a switch statement with more than 120

[mrmotion]

CS moves so fast - VM's are old hat now with docker being all the rage