A parody of Mr Robot where the intrepid hacker gets sucked into yakshaving his dotfiles. The entire episode is him tweaking his emacs and shell environment
At the very end, he begins yakshaving a dependency hell that's keeping his hacking tool from updating properly
6 episodes later, he's got the hacking tool compiled, and working. He's got his emacs set up perfectly. Tmux finally has the perfect keybindings. He's ready to
He encounters a bug in his hacking tool.
He encounters a bug in his hacking tool.
Now he spends a full episode testing the code, fixing the bug, then trying to get his pull request accepted.
The dev just keeps sending him gifs of people making j/o gestures
The dev just keeps sending him gifs of people making j/o gestures
After another 3 episodes, he finally gets that bug fixed. He's ready. Everything's running like a well oiled machine.
He next spends an entire episode on stackexchange trying to figure out why his scriptable hacking tool isn't running properly.
Oh no. He needs a newer lua.
He next spends an entire episode on stackexchange trying to figure out why his scriptable hacking tool isn't running properly.
Oh no. He needs a newer lua.
Another episode of him finding a dev environment for lua, then laboriously updating the script into the newer lua. At least it's not python
Oh goddamn there is a python 2.5 problem
Oh goddamn there is a python 2.5 problem
Another episode of him figuring out how to update the older python code to python 3.
Now everything's working. He's ready. The time is now. Cyberpunk here he
For fuck's sake why is the audio not working
Now everything's working. He's ready. The time is now. Cyberpunk here he
For fuck's sake why is the audio not working
A whole episode of him yakshaving to get his audio to work.
Finally he just decides fuck it and uses his phone to play appropriate hacking music.
Big Corp is going down.
Finally he just decides fuck it and uses his phone to play appropriate hacking music.
Big Corp is going down.
Tappety tappety.
Nothing but a hanging screen. Goddamn did it really. He has 32gb of ram. How the fuck did he run out of working memory.
Nothing but a hanging screen. Goddamn did it really. He has 32gb of ram. How the fuck did he run out of working memory.
Another episode of him yakshaving compiler optimizations to fix the memory leak that apparently has been an open issue for over a year.
2 seasons later he's yet to actually hack Big Corp.
Now he's arguing with 6 different project maintainers, one of whom has started sending him death threats, and one of whom is threatening to hand the repo over to him
Now he's arguing with 6 different project maintainers, one of whom has started sending him death threats, and one of whom is threatening to hand the repo over to him
In the 3rd season, he does actually manage to infiltrate Big Corp.
He gets a data dump of 3TB. Jackpot. Big Corp is fucked now.
He gets a data dump of 3TB. Jackpot. Big Corp is fucked now.
With horror, he realizes that he's got 3TB of a proprietary data format.
Several episodes where he's running into endless brick walls on stack exchange, trying to figure out if there's a conversion tool.
Several episodes where he's running into endless brick walls on stack exchange, trying to figure out if there's a conversion tool.
There are none. He has to write his own.
Another episode of him yakshaving to set up a haskell environment, then emacs haskell dev environment, then figure out why several necessary libraries aren't working
Another episode of him yakshaving to set up a haskell environment, then emacs haskell dev environment, then figure out why several necessary libraries aren't working
He's ready to write a compiler to compile that data dump into stuff he can use.
2 episodes of him losing his mind writing a compiler
2 episodes of him losing his mind writing a compiler
Now he has to compile that to another format and that format into another so he can finally execute its image in a secure container
3 seasons go by.
3 seasons go by.
Finally he's got the image up and running. He's ready to take down Big Corp. All he has to do is get this fucking mapreduce to work so he can quickly search through it.
Finally he has the smoking gun. Big Corp is going down tonight.
Except he needs to figure out why his tor stopped working properly so he can upload it to the dark web.
Except he needs to figure out why his tor stopped working properly so he can upload it to the dark web.