I coded my first “serious” app for the Flipper Zero this week, and it’s the first time in my 30-odd years as a programmer that coding something felt slightly weird for two totally silly reasons:

  • Each time the Flipper crashes, the dolphin makes a sad face. I know it’s just an animation but… somehow it bothers me each and every time 🙂

  • Most of the API calls start with Furi-something. And each time I write one, I can’t help but think of this. Also, there’s nothing furious about cute dolphins - apart perhaps when I keep clubbing them with null pointer dereferences… And yes, I know its stands for Flipper Universal Registry Implementation. Yet my brain can’t help conjuring up images of cute dolphins being clubbed in a post-apocalyptic desert.

Call me weird I guess…

  • gimpchrist
    1•8 months ago

    Lmao I’m just a random drive by that doesn’t really know what flipper is but imagining a computer programmer sitting at his desk as a dolphin makes sad faces on him and he stares down at his desk dejectedly in shame makes me fucking giggle so thank you. My imagining does come with extra dolphin sad noises as a bonus too