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Cool Developer

devshirt.club — Mon, 29 May 2023 15:33:08 +0000

There are plenty of stuff that makes software engineer look awesome. We are paid well, we tend to work on interesting problems. We tend to use logic a lot. However due to loneliness of our job we want to be cooler. The most important thing to know is, that we should try to feel good about ourselves. We should try to stay humble. We shouldn't be envious of other people and we should try to iteratively improve our lives.

If you still fell bad and as if you're not doing enough here are some of the stuff you can do which will help you to raise your confidence.
Doing this stuff will make you feel more confident in your professional skills as well as personal skills.

1. Start blogging

If you start blogging, it will improve your writing skills, your storytelling skills, as well as allow you to connect to other people. The most important stuff about blogging is to stay on schedule. Keep writing interesting things. Be consistent about it and don't quit.

You never know, after a couple of years, your blogging effort might turn into significant side income. However, even if it doesn't turn into side hustle, it will allow you to expand your network, give you a bigger mic and make you feel important.

2. Attend meetups

The more meetups you attend, the more your network expands. It should be good for both your social life as well as your professional career. I'm quite sure as time passes by, you'll gain an interest in presenting on some of the meetups. Putting you in the spotlight and giving you a moment to shine.

It always feels good to belong somewhere and to be a part of community. It doesn't have to be a programming nor tech related meetup, it might be a sports related or some other personal interest you might have.

3. Contribute to some open source

It always feels good to contribute to some software. If you have some free time why not join some open source project.
It will give you both a certain level of exposure. You will grow professionally. It will allow you to expose yourself to different project structure. And it will allow you to put some interesting curiosity on your CV.

Besides spending some time, there is no downside for this one.

4. Treat yourself with some swag

If you are looking for that instant fix, buying some swag should make you feel as well as well as look cool.
For sure it will give you social attention you might be craving for. It will make your personality shine.

At the end of the day, getting some cool swag doesn't cost that much. You can try out our developer t-shirts.

5. Start reading

There are plenty of professional books out there. Wether you are into different coding philosophies, whether you are more product/business oriented person there is for sure something out there for you.

Even though reading seems like a lonely hobby, if you join sites like good reads it might be a social experience. It will give you ideas on what to read and allow you to connect with other people.

6. Get into competitive coding

Brushing up your algorithms and competitive coding skills will allow you to easily pass any interviews that come before you.
Even though this isn't exactly a social activity it is a fun one.

We always want praise for our skills, and winning a competition on sites like hacker rank might give you just that.

7. Join or fund an interesting startup

Sometimes, when working in enterprise companies we might feel as a small wheel in a huge locomotive. However joining a small startup might make your life feel more interesting. In startups things tend to be more intense, you get to wear many different hats. People are generally more socially closer. You'll get to acquire many new friends.

On top of it all, if the project turns out to be successful, there might be a big financial reward for you.

Feel good about yourself

All of this things make you look cool in the eyes of other developers.However, the most important view is your own.
Try to think of a things that will truly make you happy, and try to think of a things that you would enjoy.Try to commit to those and ignore the other people's opinions.

Your life is your own, and you are in the front seat so make sure you enjoy it.

On real world coding challenge

devshirt.club — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:01:02 +0000

introduction

We've done a t-shirt for real world coding challenge. The one you usually get as part of recruitment process

Common coding challenges

Whether it is building a stripped version of battleship game that github uses for their recruitment process for enterprise applications engineer role, whether it is building a simple chat application, whether it is a url shortener. There are countless of different real world coding challenges circulating in the wild.

What engineering managers and team leads mostly check for in this kind of take at home assignments is:

Do you know how to structure the project according to standard practice.
Do you know how to write clean cod
Do you know how to input validation in order to avoid crashes
Generally do you know the language/framework required for the role.

You can often help yourself by searching for similar projects on github. There might be some open source solutions that can inspire you. Just be careful not to copy somebody's bad practices.

Do we need coding challenge

Hiring mangers usually don't know how to get the best person for the job. They must assume that that the person applying for the job is trying to oversell. It is really hard to trust the stranger that he has the skills he says he has. That is the main reason why we have technical challenge as part of the hiring process.

I mean it feels a bit wierd to have it, especially if you are also doing a references check. If you do references check you can assume person has the required coding skills. On top of that there are plenty of product skills, as well as soft skills that are usually expected from software engineer, but on the other hand are rarely tested. At the same time it is not uncommon to have multiple people fitting the role, technical challenge is one way to further narrow it down and find the best candidate for the job.

Outro

We are a payed swag club for developers, every month we publish 2 t-shirts with commissioned illustrations , their articles and their story.

You can follow us here to stay up to date with our latest stuff. Or you can purchase our t-shirts at our developers t-shirts shop

On software algorithm

devshirt.club — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:53:31 +0000

Introduction

We've done a t-shirt for creating software algorithms. When creating algorithms we often feel as mad scientists.

How we build algorithms

We try to build something that is machine wise efficient. Ideally an algorithm that runs in n time and occupies n space. But you know, don't get too hard on yourself if it is n*n time.

Same as with any kind of code, the best way is to have something working, then do small, iterative improvements. This skill is often tested in technical interviews, there are also countless platforms which automate that kind of testing.

At the end of the day it is a skill that is cherished and can always be improved with practice.

Algorithms - from origins to today

The concept of algorithms has existed since antic times. Pretty much at the same time math was "invented" people started to wonder how can we do some sort of calculations.

These days, even though we are inventing and discovering more algorithms each day, we are mostly using algorithms that were invented even before computers became a thing, or as the matter of fact before first computer was even invented. Today, there is countless more resources, and multiples of people working on improving various algorithms.

Besides doing concrete implementations on different fields, such as machine learning on plants identifications, all the way to advanced stock market oracles. We as humanity are investing heavily in solving some of the 1 million $$$ worth millennial problems.

We are also investing heavily in teaching non mathematicians about most famous and efficient algortihms such as quick sort or similar. We have countless of testing grounds or if you want to call them algorithms playgrounds such as leetcode or hackerrank which publish time limited competitions requiring algorithmic problem solving skills.

Software algorithms for non techies

Software algorithms are closely tied to math and to logical thinkings. Writing a complex algorithm is similar to solving a complex math equation. There are a lot of common and standardised way of doing things but most often you need to adapt a certain algorithm to your needs. They can be written in almost any programming language.

More often than not, a concrete programming language will come with predefined algorithms implementations as part of some standard library.

Algorithms are all about doing a certain thing, in a machine resources efficient way. There can exist multiple algorithms that provide the same solution. But important difference being how much compute time and compute space they consume.

Some of them are so famous and so long lasting that there is a $1,000,000 prize ensured for a person that manages to solve it.

Like this one:
A traveling salesman problem, or another version of it, organising household accommodation for students algorithm/math problem.

read more about it here:
Household accommodation problem

Outro

We are a payed swag club for developers, every month we publish 2 t-shirts with commissioned illustrations , their articles and their story.

You can follow us here to stay up to date with our latest stuff. Or you can purchase our t-shirts at our developers t-shirts shop

Best 8: "there is no place like 127.0.0.1" T-shirts

devshirt.club — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:34:54 +0000

We are going to list here some of the best t-shirt containing the phrase "there is no place like 127.0.0.1" and review them in order to help you decide which one to buy. Keep in mind that each one is a bit different and there are all kinds of programmer swag available. Try to find your style between them.
They usually range from $20-$35 with shipping included.

"There is no place like 127.0.0.1" is a programmers expression of popular saying "there is no place like home". 127.0.0.1 is local address which every computer gets on the network to identify itself. So it is very similar to saying there is no place like my computer.

1. Exaggerated hacker

We like this one as it reminds us of the old school matrix. It's kind of a retro hacker style, the kind that they used to do in movies when doing anything related to coding.

2. Cute house

We find this one simply cute, it reminds us of some kind of fairy tale house. The kind in which you get some awesome cookies.

3. Illustrated futuristic home

We really like this one as it reminds us of futuristic cities described in jetsons. Tech is usually all about future. At the same time it feels like home. If you are a fan of high quality illustrations this one is for you.

4. Retro gaming

If you like this kind of retro gaming fonts, the ones old arcades used to have this one might be for you.

5. Christmas spirit

This one is perfect for lifting up christmas spirits. We can almost hear jingle bells while looking at it. The font used here is also a bit retro which we find cool.

6. Data power

We really like how this one has that "Tron" modern vibe to it. It simply feels up to date and quite fashionable. It's also a bit chick if you ask us.

7. Illustrated house

Same as the other illustrated ones we find those quite cool and of a bit higher quality than rest of the tees. With blue font this one also radiates a bit of a Tron-ish vibe.

8. Plain

If you want just a plain 127.0.0.1, without the phrase or anything. Keep a bit of mystery around it... then this one is for you.

Swag out

Hope you've enjoyed this curated t-shirts list and that you've managed to find the perfect there is no place like 127.0.0.1 t-shirt for you.

Resources

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12 Best developer merchandise

devshirt.club — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:25:36 +0000

Hi my developer colleagues 👋.
I am gonna share here with you my list of best merchandise a software engineer can get. I am sure most of you will agree with me that developers adore t-shirts and stickers based on their profession.

This list is my personal favourite and I hope in here you will find something you like as well. It includes my favourite T-shirts as well as some neat stickers you can use to decorate your laptop.

1. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

I use localhost all the time, so this joke is perfect for me. There is no place where i feel as safe and cozy as my futuristic home address. Personally I love how artistic the graphic looks like. This t-shirt and stickers in unlimited edition are available for purchase from February 1st 2023. Tee is priced at $26.99 while 3”x3” sticker is sold for $8.99. Both prices include free shipping.

2. Docker

Docker is my goto tool when I need to deploy basically any piece of code. That is the main reason I had to include a docker merchandise. This one was the best I could find online. I am a big fan of how whale is carrying small containers on top of himself. I also love how cute the whale looks with his gloomy eyes. Sadly this t-shirt won’t be available for purchase until April 1st 2023. I have to say I’m a bit sad that i didn’t get to snatch limited edition of this tee.

3.I are programmer I make computer beep boop

I’m not sure about you but I am a huge NASA fan and a dog owner. So this merchandise had to be on my list. I know my dog snoopy is smart. I’m not sure if he’ll ever become an astronaut, but If he ever does, this is exactly how I envision him doing his job on a computer in space. This t-shirt is available for purchase in non limited edition at a price of $26.99 (including shipping). It’s been that way since January 1st 2023.

4. Software algorithm

I used to do competitive algorithm solving on hackerrank.com. It was a fun activity I used to do with my friends. While discussing our solutions I must say I’ve felt like a gentleman from steampunk games. Hence this merch is a must have for me. If you buy a 2-month subscription by February 28th you can get this T-shirt + another one in limited edition for a price of $34.99 (including free shipping). I think that’s a great deal. Otherwise you’ll have to wait end of the year to get it in non limited edition.

5. Breaking builds

I used to work in devops and I’m a huge breaking bad fan. Even though breaking bad was ages ago this tee is a must have for me. I must admit my builds tend to break from time to time. You know how they say, failure is just a first attempt at learning. This tee is available for purchase for price of €21.84, but care as that price doesn’t include shipping.

6. Real world coding

By having gone trough recent layoffs and interview rounds by myself. I can totally relate with this t-shirt. For me interviews are stressful and while doing technical part I feel like a small robot defender which fights for my coding solution. This T-shirt is available for purchase at a price of $34.99 (which includes shipping), you also get to pick 1 extra different T-shirt.

7. To be or not to be

I love this kind of word play. My girlfriend is linguist so I’ve kind of adopted those from her and ted to use it with my colleagues. Also I find it cool to have a keychain with expression statement on it. You can get this cool keychain for $13.08 + shipping.

8. Golang mug

Sadly with golang’s official store closing we have to go to alternative stores to get merchandise. But to be fair the mug still looks cool and I would love to get my coffee. Some caffeine is always welcome while writing code. You can get it for $12.95 + shipping. Consider also getting a gopher plush from them. They are insanely cute

9. Dev.to sticker pack

I love dev.to platform. It has enabled me to connect with community, learn new things and expand my following. They have an awesome sticker pack, so why not give some love back and buy it. You can get their sticker pack for a good price of $12.00 with free shipping included.

10. Gitlab hoodie

I’m a huge fan of gitlab, and I think they are doing an amazing job. That is the reason why I had to list their official hoodie. It looks cool, feels comfortable and makes a point. It has a bit hefty price of $40.00 + shipping but in my opinion it is totally worth it.

11. Frontend backend

This two sided t-shirt is one of the best I could find. I’m in web development so it has a certain appeal to me. Tee has a cool design with tech monkeys from the future. As well as frontend written on the front and backend on the back of it. It simply had to be featured in this list. I’m not sure when it will be available for purchase in non limited edition or what it’s price will be but one thing is for sure, It looks awesome.

12. Rick and Morty 100 sticker pack

Even though it is not exactly developers related, I wanted to give this list a bit of personal touch. So figured why not include a rick and morty sticker pack. It includes a 100 small sticker, but honestly it looks cool and is something you can share with your friend. It comes at a nice price of $12.99

Outro

It’s been nice writing this list. Let me know what you think about these products in the comments. If you have any other suggestions please drop them in the comments.
Also don’t forget to like it ❤️ and bookmark it 🏷️ for later use.

References

Frontend Backend - December release

devshirt.club — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:45:23 +0000

Hi All 👋🏻

We've just released our Decembers edition of developer's T-shirts.

This t-shirt come in 3 variants: front-end, back-end, and full-stack

Hope that you'll enjoy them 😊

Read more, or order our developer shirt:
Frontend backend Developer t-shirt

Developer t-shirt release summary

Question was:

Frontend or backend?

Inspirational quote

First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

About design

We have levled up a classical joke, frontend on front side of t-shirt and back-end on back side of t-shirt. With bored ape yacht club gaining popularity not so long ago, and with monkeys being as cool as ever we've decided to pick tech monkeys from future for our fronted backend t-shirt. Frontend monkey is cheerful, using light and happy colors, he even has a banana. While backend monkey is a bit more dreadful, has open brain, is a bit darker and more twisted. This is our first double sided t-shirt, but we think it is perfect theme for exploring 2 sides.

10 coolest Developer T-shirts

devshirt.club — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:42:10 +0000

Being a developer and working in tech is the new cool. Be proud of it and get some premium t-shirts to brag about it.

All of the listed t-shirts are made of 100% cotton materials, making you feel comfy as well as making you look great. Unlike the cheap Polyester t-shirts you can usually find online these ones are the real deal.

The illustrations on them are exclusive and high quality. Comparing them to something that sells on etsy wouldn't be fair because these ones are just a magnitude better. Each one is though trough, with design briefs, professional illustration, inspirational quote and a story behind it.

I've listed here my favourite T-shirts for which I think you'll find them cool and loveable.

1.) Parent Programmer

Nothing gives as much joy to engineers as compiler successfully compiling our programs. We could say the same for becoming a parent. This T-shirt reflects on that.

2.) Build in progress

Don't let your colleagues think you are slacking while your system is building. While these things happen you are usually monitoring and thinking about what could go wrong. Sloth is there just to spice things up as builds sometimes tend to be slow. Make sure you grab a coffee while wearing this special build tee. I guarantee it will bring some smiles to your coworkers face.

3.) There is no place like 127.0.0.1

The highest quality t-shirt of a developer's quote. With futuristic perfectly drawn home, I would say this one is simply pure art. It's simply by a magnitude better than anything else currently on the market. I'm so glad that I own this tee.

4.) It's harder to read code than to write it

This one is deep, both illustration wise, as well as quote wise. With a ying yang of junior becoming a senior, and a matching quote it's simply astonishing. If you want to look smart, make your colleagues impressed, go for this one.

5.) If you control the code you control the world

This one is perfect if you are generally enthusiastic and positive person. It's simply a classic other developers will cherish. It emphasises the importance of tech in modern world.

6.) I are programmer i make computer beep boop

Another classic, but at the same time, it is a magnitude better than anything else on the market. It most certainly appeals to developer dog parents out there.

7.) Docker saves the day

One for docker enthusiasts as well as professionals. I love how docker's whale became a hero with superpowers. Compared to other illustrations on the market this one is much more thought true. Not the mention the high quality of it and amount of details that went into it.

8.) Do crypto with passion or don't do it at all

Stand up to crypto's true values, and don't follow the current hype. Let's remove the bad from crypto leaving only good values. Support decentralised money.

9.) Serverless web scale

This developer t-shirt perfectly captures the state of serverless technologies. It's a bit playful and gonna make your peers LOL. It's a nice conversation opener for a given tech.

10.) Crypto sceptics

Scepticism about crypto is understandable. There are burning questions about it: Do we need it? What's wrong with fiat? What's up with all the crypto scams?

Want to see more cool tees? Take a look at devshirt.club. We are releasing 2 t-shirts per month so make sure you follow us and check us out from time to time in order to not miss the other cool developer tees.

Deployment options | November release

devshirt.club — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:52:45 +0000

Hi All 👋🏻

We've just released our November's edition of developer's T-shirts.

Hope that you'll enjoy them 😊

Developer t-shirt release summary

Question was:

Containers or Serverless?

Inspirational quote

there is no cloud: It’s just someone else’s computer

Read the full story of this developer t-shirt

Answer containers

Read about Docker saves the day

Developer T-shirt design

We think nothing illustrates containers more than famous docker whale. At the end of the day it is the technology used by 90% of engineers in production environments. So we did a fan tribute tee. Besides picking a docker logo for our hero, we've figured we need to make him more heroic. So we made him fly, and added a bit of high tech gear. He is carrying various packages because that is what docker helps us do. Make sure our dependencies work in production enviorments. One of the reasons for dockers popularity is that it runs in every cloud provider. That is also the main reason why hero is calmly floating on a bunch of clouds. We hope that we've nailed it with this illustration and made you think of Docker the same way we do. Made you think of a hero that saves our day.

Answer serverless

Read about Serverless web scale

Developer T-shirt design

Even though Lambda from AWS is probably the most popular representation of serverless, we've decided to go with road runner for our developer tee. We think that road runner is a perfect illustration of serverless. For us serverless represents fast way of building stuff, hence a famous cartoon character. With serverless you are a judge of how much you want to invest into development and how much you want to pay your hosting provider. That is the main reason why our road runner is dressed as a judge. We think, as you scale serverless, it is all about balancing which parts you want to build as machine efficient microservices and which parts you want to design using serverless functions. Hence our judicial scale. As you weight the pros and cons you usually realise how much you need to invest into developing something. Serverless makes developing new features simple. It reduces the initial developement costs. That is why the scale is tilted on FaaS. And as far as quote goes we were inspired with rap battle. We think there is some truth about it. It's all about going high speed without compromising the deed.

What is devshirt.club

devshirt.club is a paid mystery tee a month club built specifically for developers, engineers and programmers in mind. Each month you answer a question and get a mystery tee delivered at your doorstep.
Every one of our shirts is illustrated and we aim to provide high quality tee's.

Cyrpto - October release

devshirt.club — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:14:41 +0000

Hi All 👋🏻

We've just released our October's edition of developer's T-shirts.

Hope that you'll enjoy them 😊

Developer t-shirt release summary

Question was:

Do you support crypto?

Inspirational quote

If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, 
I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.

Read the full story of this developer t-shirt

Answer yes

Developer T-shirt design

With answer yes we tried to illustrate how early adopters of crypto looked like. They were often geeky, un-shaved introverts with a spare machine. Even though they were closed introverts, once they let their guard down, their friendliness and kindness comes to the surface. They were simply developers passionate about crypto and we think that is the reason it become so popular. This days it feels like it would be beneficial to remind ourselves of crypto roots, and maybe strive to bring the same values.
Humility, friendliness, hard work and kindness.
We all love those kind of developers. ❤️❤️❤️

Answer no

Developer T-shirt design

We've illustrated the scepticism attitude some developers have toward everything crypto related. There are a lot of things happening in crypto that aren't exactly legal. There is a lot of scams us developers as technical people see trough, and feel empathic to victims. When looking from outside perspective some us have a feeling the whole crypto thing is just an unregulated wild west. Hence the question we ask ourself. Can we truly trust the crypto token.

What is devshirt.club

devshirt.club is a paid tee a month club built specifically for developers, engineers and programmers in mind. Each month you answer a question and get a tee delivered at your doorstep.
Every one of our shirts is illustrated and we aim to provide high quality tee's.

Should you design tee for your developer event

devshirt.club — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:33:18 +0000

Design T-shirt for your developer event

In this blog post we’ll try to help you decide if you should design T-shirts for you programming event or contest.

We’ll go into details and examples of:

should you design your merch?
is it a bad choice to have merch?
can you reduce cost by partnering?

Generics design vs Specific design

There are 2 types of developer tee designs:

Generic design (think of all the programmer jokes you can print on tee’s and mugs)
Specific design ( Think of facebook/react producing a tee with their logo)

1. Generic merch

Generic merch designs can be good when money is tight.

It shows that you care about your event and that you want to hand out some memorabilia. When handing out generic design people will still remember you, each time they see their merch they might get a warm feeling about you.

If you go with generic design you hope that your audience will eventually communicate with other people and do word of mouth marketing of your event.

What you want to achieve is this type of conversation between developer that attended your event and his friend:

Mike: Hi Jhon

Jhon: Hi Mike

Mike: That’s a cool T-shirt. where did you get it?

Jhon: Ow i got it off this cool event *XYZ*.

Mike: Nice, could you tell me a bit more about it?

2. Specific merch

Specific design on the other hand is more expensive but forms a tighter connection with your audience.

Remember that you need to pay your illustrator/designer, you need to figure out design brief in collaboration with him, and you probably need to handle production. All this things cost both money and your time.

With this type of merch you want to inspire following conversation


Mike: Hi Jhon

Jhon: Hi Mike

Mike: Ow that’s a React’s t-shirt, how did you get it? I want one?

Jhon: I have 3 pr’s merged into react open source repo

Mike: That is soo cool.

Keep in mind that for this type of conversation Mike also needs to know what is react
This type of merch acts as a certain status symbol, It frankly doesn’t matter if it’s a tee, mug, sticker or an nft. It serves it’s purpose for as long as your audience can brag with it

Good examples of designs from business standpoint

From business standpoint there are some great examples of utilising developer merch to do promotions.

We’ll name just a few here:

1. Hacktoberfers tshirts

By opening a 4 pull requests during October to any open source repo, you get a cool developer t-shirt and some stickers.

Reason why this works so well is that Hacktoberfest is highly marketed event, Almost any developer, programmer or a person in IT industry knows about this event. It is backed by famous companies like digitalocean, dev, and intel. As mentioned in example for specific merch, if it wasn’t that famous it probably wouldn’t work that well.

2. Reactify programmer t-shirts

By attending reactify event (networking for react) you get a t-shirt.

Again this works so well, because it is promoting a famous event between react community. It has an appeal to react developers, and by leaning on to react’s popularity they get a free marketing to reactify events.

3. Meetups developers t-shirts

There are plenty of examples when programmer’s t-shirts shops are sponsoring small meetups events by giving speakers or attendees free t-shirts and free stickers. Sticker mule is famous for doing that.

Reason that works well is because there are 2 sides.
For one bootstrapped meetups get to actually give something to their speakers and attendees. From meetups standpoint they immediately become more valuable because people like “free stuff”. And from sponsors standpoint they get a cheap exposure to their target audience, by handing out merch to speakers they increase their precieved value.

Available partners to buy generic from

If you are bootstrapping and money is tight consider generic designs. You also want a marketing boost of your event from a merch shop. Consider pinging developer merch shops and partnering with some of them.

We’re just gonna list a few here, but keep in mind that all of them have a contact on which you can ping them and ask them to sponsor your programming event:

When you shouldn’t give out merch

If you are constrained with time, you’re having a hard time finding a sponsor for your event. At start it might be a good idea to just ditch the merch and focus on quality of event.

Having a good speaker’s lineup, a good venue, and a good attendance, takes a higher priority than handing out event’s merchandise.

What goes into designing t-shirt

If you decide to design your own programmer t-shirt, keep in mind it is up to you to figure out what needs to be on a shirt. Your designer or illustrator will also expect you to produce a certain design brief for him. You can read more about what is a design brief here.

It would be a good idea to produce you programming t-shirt design brief before starting you search for illustrator/designer. After that, you’ll need to handle feedback loop with your t-shirt designer. Our advice would be to be as honest as possible.

Once that is done, all that is left is producing your t-shirts, for which we would suggest our partner printify.com

Expected cost

From cost side of things we would expect the following:

- 5 hours to figure out T-shirt design
- 10 hours spent recruiting your programming t-shirt designer/illustrator
- anywhere between $200-$1000 as payment for your illustrator
- 5-10 hours spent on feedback loop with your designer
- 5 hours spent on handling production side of merchandise

Giving merch to all vs giving it to the selected few

Once you have your developer’s merchandise designed, you need to figure out if you want to give it to all attendees, or just to a selected few.

For example if you have a developers meetup and want to hand out some tees, you need to figure out if you want to hand it to speakers only, or to every attendee. If you hand it out to everybody, you will decrease its precieved value. While on the other hand if you hand it out to just a few people, others may feel neglected. There is a fine balance that needs to be found.

In ideal scenario we would hand out generic programming tees to speakers, and hand out our event specific stickers to everybody. That way nobody should feel neglected, you will save out on cost, and everybody will have a nice memorabilia to remember your event for.

Best of luck

With all this knowledge passed down to you we wish you a best of luck with your event 😊

Know that we would love to find out what path have you decided for.

So feel free to tweet us, or dev.to us and let us know, just use #devshirt.club

This article was copied from devshirt's club blog

Modern housing - September release

devshirt.club — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 23:51:41 +0000

Hi All 👋🏻

We've just released our September's programming T-shirts.

Question was:
Do you own a home?

Inspirational quote
Home is where our story begins…

Answer yes

Design

With answer yes we did a spin-off of a classic joke.
We aimed to capture both that cosy warm feeling of a home. Or home address if you wish, and illustrate that most of us engineers tend to build our homes in a high tech fashion with a lot of automation and gadgets.
We hope that you'll enjoy our illustration 😊

Answer no

Design

We've tried to target junior programmers who are just starting out. We've tried to capture their enthusiasm and joy of learning new stuff. At the same time we wanted to capture and celebrate that programming skills open a lot of previously closed doors.
We hope that you'll enjoy our illustration 😊

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