T-shirts, stickers and mugs for developers
Merch for people who read the stack trace.
Programming language mascots, framework logos and coding humour — drawn properly, printed on things you'd actually wear. Plus the stories behind why the Go gopher looks like that.
Designs
Ferris the Crab Pixel Art
Ferris rendered in chunky pixel art — the Rust mascot as a 16-bit sprite, pincers up. Reads clearly from across a room, which is more than most logo tees manage.
Go Gopher
Renée French's gopher, drawn at print resolution rather than scaled up from a web asset. The buck teeth and the wide-set eyes are the whole character, and they survive the trip to fabric.
It Works on My Machine
The oldest excuse in software, set in a warm pink serif over two lines. Softer than the joke deserves, which is precisely what makes it land — it reads as an apology rather than a defence.
Kubernetes Logo
The seven-spoked helm in Kubernetes blue. Instantly readable to anyone who has ever debugged a CrashLoopBackOff at eleven at night, and pleasantly abstract to everyone else.
React Heart Logo
The React atom with one of its three orbitals bent into a red heart. A small change that turns a framework logo into something you can give someone without it reading as corporate merchandise.
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Gift guides
- Gifts for backend developersBackend developer gift ideas — Node, Go, GraphQL, Ruby and PHP, chosen by someone who has actually run the thing in production.
- Gifts for a computer science studentGift ideas for a CS student — the languages they actually get taught, plus what to avoid buying someone still working out what they like.
- Gifts for DevOps and SRE engineersGift ideas for DevOps, SRE and platform engineers — Kubernetes, Helm, Serverless and the on-call humour that only lands if you have been paged.
- Gifts for front-end developersFront-end developer gift ideas chosen by someone who writes components — React, Vue and the tooling, without guessing wrong on the framework war.
From the blog
- Who is Ferris, and why Rust's mascot is unofficialFerris began as a two-hour drawing for friends. The story of Rust's crab, the name nobody remembers choosing, and the licence that set it free.
- There is a cog hidden in the React logoThe negative space in the React logo forms a cog, and the designer put it there deliberately — after studying the arrow hidden in the FedEx logo.
- Where "it works on my machine" came fromA 1990s excuse, a satirical certification, a badge nearly everyone misattributes, and the container that finally made the sentence true.