Most tech humour apparel is written for “people in tech”, which is a group large enough that the joke has to be understood by all of it. That is why so much of it is about coffee, bugs and localhost. Those jokes are fine. They are just not about your job.
| A general tech tee says | Which needs | A SlowRing tee says | Which needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| It works on my machine | Having written code. Any code, any language, any decade. | AADSTS50058 | Having read that code in a sign-in log and known, before opening the docs, that there was no session to silently reuse. |
| There's no place like 127.0.0.1 | Knowing what localhost is. | Working as designed | Having watched a real bug get closed with those three words, and having had to relay them to the person who reported it. |
| 99 little bugs in the code | Nothing. It is a counting rhyme. | There is no test tenant | Having made the change in production at 6am because production is the only tenant there is. |
A shirt that lands with everyone in tech prints in long runs and sells at a lower price, because the audience is enormous. A shirt about a specific sign-in failure sells to the people who have read that specific sign-in failure. Same blank garment, same printer, much shorter run.
$30 buys a Bella+Canvas 3001 printed direct-to-garment when you order it. Nothing is held in stock, so there is no season, no minimum and nothing left over. If you buy more than one it comes down: two shirts are $27.00 each, and 3 or more shirts are $25.50 each with free shipping. It applies at checkout on its own — there is no code.
A shirt like this is not really read by you. It is read across a table by the one other person at the conference, in the office, or on the client site who knows what the number means. They do not ask what it means. They say the number back.
That is the whole product. There are 27 of them.