“Still life with various Unix shells”
Bartholomeus van der Ast
Oil on panel
c 1640
(collaboration from Mats Nilsson)
Classic Programmer Paintings
Twitter: @progpaintingsPainters and Hackers: nothing in common whatsoever, but this is software engineering as depicted by artists through history (technically, might not be all classical but hey, this is just a tumblr)
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“Team lead performs hotfix.”
Henry Fuseli
Oil on canvas
1783
Louvre, Paris, France
“Team leads review candidate’s whiteboard, binary-tree inversion solution.”
Matthew Pratt (1734–1805)
1765
Oil on canvas
(collaboration from Lettier)
“Overeager Designer Discovers Vim” - Portrait, Oil on Canvas, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun 1790
“A young developer muses changes to the team’s process.”
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Oil on Canvas
c. 1782
“Senior developer gets interrupted”
Pier Francesco Mola
Oil on canvas
c. 1660
( collaboration from
Stefano Baghino)
“Developer reads customer requested change.”
Caravaggio
Oil on canvas
1594
( collaboration from
Matt Large)
“Recruiting the 10x developer”
Auguste Toulmouche, 1866
(collaboration form
Gary Dusbabek)
“Hip, Hip, Hurrah! - Year long project runs flawlessly in production”
Peder Severin Krøyer
1888
Oil-on-canvas
“JavaScript Fatigue”
Rembrandt van Rijn
1629
(collaboration from Laurens)
“Early stages of a VC backed startup company”
Anthony van Dyck
1637
Oil on canvas
(collaboration from Ken)