This year's Hacken Open Air line-up is once again second to none: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will heat you up on the Black Hat Sta...
View full detailsSome people recognize their age by their back pain. We nerds recognize it by the moment when we want to save a file and briefly think: "Where is ac...
View full detailsWe've all been there: you're in a hurry, throw on your jacket and want to quickly grab your keys when you leave the house. Unfortunately, it's nowh...
View full detailsEvery user of a unixoid operating system (Linux, Mac, BSD, etc.) should have seen a so-called fork bomb. This is a program that creates copies of i...
View full detailsOn January 19 of the year 2038 at exactly 3:14:07 (GMT), the variable that stores the Unix time will overflow!Unix systems store the time as a numb...
View full detailsWhat is actually behind all this software and where does it come from, we asked ourselves and did some research. During our research, we came up wi...
View full detailsThe word hacker in Japanese on a shirt. The characters are pronounced "hakka" (with a small pause between the k, i.e. "hak (pause) ka").
Magic makes many a practical gadget of our time look old, but unfortunately students are strictly forbidden from casting spells outside of Hogwarts...
View full detailsIsn't it a good feeling to have power over many computers and users? Of course, backups don't help against a real admin, but users only realize tha...
View full detailsIt only takes two little words to turn even the most well-versed computer scientist into a nervous wreck: syntax error. Although people in STEM pro...
View full detailsAnyone who has ever programmed something themselves will most likely know that just because the program runs on their own computer, it also works p...
View full details[i]42 is the answer to the question of life, the universe and all the rest.[/i]So 42 is also the answer to the question of what [i]Pi*thumb[/i] res...
View full detailsTo be, or not to be, that is the question.2b, or not 2b, that is the question./(bb|[^b]{2})/ We always knew that coders are lyricists. If Shakespea...
View full detailsSome call it arrogance, one engineer calls it expertise. Where the problems begin for others, they find the solutions - in ways that a normal perso...
View full detailsYou should be very careful when programming with pointers, because you are walking close to hell ;) At least the 2nd of the 10 commandments for C p...
View full detailsWhat sounds like a joke to today's generation was once an absolute revolution: a data carrier made of cardboard that is inserted into a drive. 80 k...
View full detailsTwo rules for life is a dry statement for anyone who refuses access when they hear "Details please". The clear typo print sums up the humor of IT, ...
View full detailsAs we all know, too many cooks spoil the broth. What applies in the kitchen can also be transferred to the world of IT in this case. Whether it's a...
View full detailsUnit tests are for beginners, test environments are overrated and the last deploy was... adventurous? Then Test in Production is exactly your style...
View full detailsOf course, table-based layouts are evil and should be avoided. But when you test the CSS layout you've painstakingly created for Firefox with Inter...
View full detailsACK is written on the back. SYN/ACK are the "commands" that the TCP/IP protocol uses for each connection setup. More about this here, for example: ...
View full detailsOn this "Dino Curve" T-shirt you can see a truly unique mathematical phenomenon. As was to be proven, mathematics is anything but a dry science. If...
View full detailsSometimes it can seem that in many software companies, one department doesn't know what the other is doing and vice versa. Sales and marketing woul...
View full detailsWho tells us what is right and what is wrong? Or is right not right and wrong right? A matter of opinion?
There was little competition for the NES among 16-bit games consoles, but the Sega Mega Drive was definitely one of them. It ran iconic classic gam...
View full details"you are dumb" in binary ASCII code.The correct answer to all DAU questions (including the question of what is written on your T-shirt): You are du...
View full detailsThe "Before you bother me" T-shirt picks up on an all too familiar situation in everyday office life, when technical problems occur and colleagues ...
View full detailsWhether through portals or with the help of a flying saucer through the vastness of the universe, with Rick Sanchez at your side you usually end up...
View full detailsDo you remember that sound? That iconic screech, hiss and beep while your modem painfully dialed into the internet - and you sat there hoping that ...
View full detailsDoes your data center urgently need decent security? And you're ideally suited for the job? Then why not promote yourself with this shirt :)It says...
View full detailsDespite the fact that the binary system is frequently used in computer science (and therefore in many areas of our lives), very few people know wha...
View full detailsThe command [i]export EDITOR=""[/i] defines the editor that is used by other applications by default to open files. The abbreviation [i]rm[/i], how...
View full detailsParticularly talented coders are not satisfied with writing their own code, but also try to analyze other programs and hardware, e.g. to write driv...
View full details88 miles per hour were yesterday. For those who really want to go back in time, just press Ctrl+Z - the most powerful shortcut in human history.On ...
View full detailsIt is surprisingly easy to hack into other computer systems, often a simple phone call does the trick: "Hello, I am your system administrator. I ne...
View full detailsThis is where many people run out of ideas. Yet more and more often you need a present for someone who loves ones and zeros: a relative who works as a sysadmin, a friend who codes, or simply because SysAdmin Day is coming up. In our geek shop, programmers are among our favourite customers, which is why we have a big range of IT gadgets and other goodies they're sure to love.
Anyone looking for a gift for someone in IT, whether a computer scientist, a programmer or an admin, faces the same question: what makes someone happy who works with computers all day and prefers to pick their own tech? The answer is here. This selection collects gift ideas that speak the language of the trade, from the binary wristwatch and mugs with code jokes to the 127.0.0.1 doormat, which says "There is no place like home", just in IP addresses.
Programmers recognise each other by their humour. Shirts like It Works On My Machine, Deploy on Friday? or Help me, Stack Overflow capture everyday developer life, and You shall not parse! ties it to Gandalf. For the coffee break there is the Debugging mug and the mug The Code Is Documentation Enough. If you would rather play, take the programming language card game code:deck or the Pure Data Playing Cards, where each of the 54 cards is printed as a JSON code block. More designs are in programmer shirts and hoodies.
Admins spend all day answering questions whose answer is in the manual. For them there are shirts like Ich bin Admin or BOFH, and for the hard cases the LART network whip made of network cable. On the desk, the status light blink(1) mk3 shows in colour what is going on, and when the build fails again you may hit the giant Enter button. For a bigger gift, take a look at the mechanical keyboards. Shirts for everyone in the trade are in computer science shirts.
Beginners enjoy games and kits that make programming tangible. With the board game C-Jump, kids and pupils learn in a playful way how a program runs, and the BinaryBots kits turn into their first own robot. The binary LED watch for beginners trains counting in ones and zeros along the way.
Looking for a specific occasion? Here is the matching selection: Secret Santa gifts for computer scientists, Christmas gifts for nerds, birthday gifts for nerds and graduation gifts. For the team at the office there are Secret Santa gifts for colleagues and farewell gifts for colleagues.
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