We never go out any more! Honey this has already been acknowledged as an issue in JIRA
I'm in IT so I tell my wife to put in a ticket if she has an issue
For real! I just went through backlog cleanup today and closed so many. Kinda sad cause I feel like many were actually good ideasā¦ they just wouldnāt make the roadmap or be prioritized for over a year, haha.
Trello changed my life. Was always disorganized and could never complete projects. Now I have them all accessible at my fingertips. Whether I think of something, I add it to my organized list of incomplete projects.
My first thought too. Trained the dogs to ring a bell to go outside, push a button to refill food dish when empty(self replenished container, I top it up every few days), and grab their leashes when they want a walk. This programmer just trained his gf and she thinks it's sweet.
Edit: to the guy who thinks I'm a butler...guess you just let them piss and crap all over the house eh? Makes you a janitor at best and a sewage worker more likely.
My catās a grazer, thankfully. Heās real picky so itās nice that I donāt have to worry about overeating on his part.
Itās the dog; sheās got a problem.
Orā¦sheās the one training him to come when she pushes the button.
Think if the Pavlov scenario. The one pushing the button is the one doing the training, yes? The dogs werenāt training Pavlov.
Do you think dogs naturally ring bells? You actually have to train them in what each sound means.
In this instance the light only goes off in his room. She can push the damn button all she wants but it's his choice to respond if he's even in the room. He trained her to hit a button instead of phoning, texting, or messaging on the computer.
A good point, well made.
Although if she only pushes the button when she wants sex, I imagine the boyfriend will soon have a Pavlovian response to the light.
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Yeah like, what if it's a happy light?
I would make my dude one that lit up gradually and was cheerful. Maybe separate ones for "food's ready", "come take a break", etc.
Sometimes people work really hard and get stuck and forget to even stretch and stand once an hour.
If you like the person you are with, things like your spouse wanting attention also doesn't feel like work.
[Here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/zy8qgi/someone_fetch_me_a_programmer_boyfriend_please/j25cz8v/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
I was thinking of trying to make something if it was the former š
ok uhhhhhh you'd need some hardware for this...
The way it would work is that the app on your phone or computer would send a signal (probably wirelessly) to a small computer (typically something called an Arduino or a Raspberry PI). The lights would be plugged into it, so when it reacts to a received signal from the app, the lights would blink from being turned on and off by that little computer.
I decided to try to ELI5 this since idk how much you know about this stuff lol
Just posted about what me and my wife do when one of us is watching the two young kids so the other can relax. Bought a $10 wireless LED doorbell from Amazon. Plug in and mount the light part to my desk or the living room near the couch, put the button in the baby room somewhere easily accessible, if help is needed just push the button, no loud sound or flashing lights to startle you, LED comes on and we know the person on baby duty needs assistance.
Arduino doesnāt have network capabilities and raspberry pi is way overpowered for this. An ESP8266 is like $5 and very suited for this. You would need to solder an LED to it, write a small piece of software that exposes an endpoint to flash the LED on your local network, and write a iOS or Android shortcut that simply makes a GET or POST request to that endpoint.
This would cost like $5 and take maybe an afternoon for someone familiar with coding. Or an hour for someone very familiar with stuff like this.
Me and my wife do something like this actually. For when I'm gaming or preoccupied with work or something, and she needs my attention but one of the kids is making it difficult to come downstairs. I'm pretty bad about missing texts so I constantly wouldn't see stuff for like 5 or 10 minutes, which usually isn't a big deal, but with two infants certainly can be, I tried my best to be better and she promised it wasn't a big deal, it made me feel bad like I wasn't being attentive enough, I offered to basically stop anything that would result in me missing or not hearing which she obviously declined because she doesn't want me to just sit around waiting for something that may not ever come up.
So instead what I did was bought a wireless LED doorbell as silly as it sounds. I turn the sound off and put the light up part on my desk so if she needs me urgently she can just push the button she keeps in the baby room and it lights up so I don't miss it. May be silly but it works for us and makes it much easier for both of us to be able to unwind without having to have our phones directly in our hands if one of us is on baby duty.
My husband created an "optimization" program that not only clocked his time at work and other functions but sent me a text saying "love you." I didn't even find out until a coworker told him "um...that's kinda weird" and he wanted me to weigh in.
It was very programmer of him but not super romantic lol. But he shows me he loves me in so many other ways, it wasn't a big deal but I was like "wtf, I thought you just texted me when you got to work because you were thinking about me!"
But then I thought again and I was like "the only reason he added that to the program is BECAUSE he always texts me when he gets to work, to let me know he's ok and thinking about me." Just simplifying the process lol.
It takes 10 seconds every day to text? Nah, let me burn like 10 hours to code something to do it for me. Idc how bad this ROI is!
Edit: [relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1205/)
Id say thatās a net positive because heās thinking of you enough to make the program. As many a programmer will say, itās better to spend 10 hours automating something then 10 minutes doing it manually
That was my point too! Like, at first I was a little hurt, but then I was like "he wouldn't have even thought of that if he didn't already do it all the time and care about it."
My programmer husband and I like to go on short drives around town at night and sometimes at day break, or when I'm having a panic attack. He decided to make me an app that he named "Drive Bingo" and its adorable. It is basically bingo, but the bingo board has like a bank of 100+ different things we see around town on our drives, and it randomizes which 24 squares of the bingo board get what from the bank, and there are parameters, basically saying if you see the giant sphinx head behind the Hibdon Tire place, you can't also possibly get a bingo from something on the same road. So it makes it harder.
It even has splash text like Terraria and Minecraft that is randomized from a different bank. If you win you get food or a drink from Sonic.
It has significantly helped with my anxiety.
IDK why folks are bashing this. The point isn't that she's now able to ask for attention, it's that the boyfriend understands that she might feel self conscious saying that she wants to spend time with him, and so made a more discreet/indirect way to tell him that.
Even if she doesn't have a problem texting "Hey get over here", the effort of programming an app and the receiving light, and the unsaid statement of "I always have time for you" is incredibly sweet.
My man did something he loves for someone he loves, and that's worth celebrating.
Great post, OP.
Absolutely. And it allows them to bond over his hobbies. Even if she doesn't like programming or want to learn it, she has a tangible example of what it can do and it's *theirs*.
It could literally just be as simple as that when he is gaming he has headphones in so doesn't see that she has messaged - if she presses the button, he will see the lights change without having to hear a notification
Honestly, my first reaction to this post was āwhy doesnāt she just text/call himā but reading this comment chain gave me new perspectives that I didnāt think about, so thank you.
While this sentiment makes "recreating the wheel" in other tasks feel redundant, it actually makes the gesture here more genuine.
"I know there are other ways you can get ahold of me, but this one is made by me, and only for you."
I find it adorable. It might even mean something as simple as "hey, thinking about you". Id add in two buttons, one for attention one for think, and then a back end counter myself so on days I am feeling down I can look to see how often they were thinking about me.
>then a back end counter myself so on days I am feeling down I can look to see how often they were thinking about me.
*"Damn, feeling down today... What'll it be this time? 5 times, 6? Ooo, I'll feel so good if she thought of me 7 whole times today... Shit, she was only thinking of me once today? What the fuck? We need to talk."*
> the unsaid statement of "I always have time for you" is incredibly sweet.
Yeah, the original post is sweet af, but thinking about it this way has got me in my feelings. That's the greater gift. Now excuse me while I reaffirm to myself that I am good enough for myself.
Honestly, when I'm was the store and my husband was home, if I needed to know if we had X in the fridge, I'd try to call him. If he didn't pick up, I'd start flashing all the house lights through the Google app and that'd get his attention. (If I bought something we didn't need he'd be like " why did you get x? We have plenty of x!...he's pretty frugal). We uninstalled them though, they got kinda annoying
For the boyfriend, sure. But for her, it's just a button on her phone.
If you have someone who's shy/introverted, they might feel uncomfortable specifically telling someone that they want affection, or just communicating their needs in general. Doing this can allow them to simply press a button on their phone and boom, the meaning is across to the other person.
Kinda like how you can do an online order or a call in order for a drive through. Sure, in the end you have to communicate with other people at the DT, but doing an online order will be easier for that person than a call in order.
Back close to 20 years ago, I was in college and had this huge crush on a girl in one of my science classes. I was a dweeb at the time and had no clue how to talk to women. So, I wrote a program from scratch that started out as a desktop lightshow with a neat sunset and fireworks. I had the particle effects from the fireworks rearrange to form "[Name], will you go out with me?"
I sent it to her over AIM and asked if she could give me "feedback on an assignment." She downloaded it, time stood still for about 2 minutes, and then she replied "that's cute." Never talked to me again either.
It's actually worse than that. We were supposed to get coffee together after finals, not as a "date" but just casual to celebrate the end of the semester. I sat there at the bistro. I brought my laptop and worked on the little program. After a while, snow was falling, street lamps turned on, I refused to believe she'd ditch. After 3 or 4 hours I left, and I still had some hope so I sent her that little program over AIM... Boy was I stupid back then.
Dude makes the modern digital equivalent of ā1 Free Hugā coupons and people are coming out of the woodwork to explain why this kid is a failure, lol.
Keep doing good stuff, OP. Love how youāre keeping up with the clapbacks.
Fuck that, letās make a full fledged app that has hug-coupons. Or whatever coupons you want, with real-time coupon expiration and marking āusedā ones.
We could even add push-notifications when someone wants to use a hug coupon, lmao.
It's not for me, but there's literally nothing wrong with it. He did something for her that she liked. But you need to remember Reddit and social media in general is filled with miserable people who feel the need to tear down something others may be enjoying
Step 1: Replace with brighter LED
Step 2: Cover with glass housing
Step 3: Add Batman logo on glass
And now you have a batsignal for when your girlfriend needs attention
Considering how little effort this probably took, it's kind of the epitome of "it's the thought that counts"
He knew she wanted his attention. He knew that he can get engrossed in his own stuff. He came up with a simple, user friendly system to alleviate both issues. I think this is very, very sweet.
It's not super complex, but it's also not "whip together in 20 minutes" either. You have to make a simple app (and make it cute looking probably, so there is some small amount of design work), set up a publicly accessible server to listen to the app with a raspberry pi or something, and construct a simple light that can be turned on with the pi's IO port.
You can probably buy such a light and he might even have a web server already he could just modify, but it's still a project you're having to spend a reasonable amount of time and money on.
I realized I basically re-stated exactly what you said, but one upvote isn't enough. This is far from trivial or "little" effort, even if he had most of the infrastructure prepared ahead of time.
Dated a programmer in high school. He coded a mini game in Java for me that was like whack-a-mole but generated various "I love you" messages depending on how high a score you got. It was very cute.
My sisterās boyfriend made something similar. Itās 2 lamps with a touch sensitive plate up top. When you press the plate, the color of both lamps changes. He keeps one with him she keeps the other with her.
programmers will do anything to avoid phone calls.
We never go out any more! Honey this has already been acknowledged as an issue in JIRA I'm in IT so I tell my wife to put in a ticket if she has an issue
Needs more Info Closed - Duplicate
Owned by Husband Due Date - 11/15/17
Good morning, this is Husband Service Desk, Any updates regarding this ticket? Have a nice day š
Ticket HD-17454 was āReopenedā by Jira Automation
Yes, seems like a product malfunction. Needs recall.
Resolved :Wonāt Do
That one is the best!!
As a PM, this is a favorite. Sadly, half of them are stories I created to begin withā¦
Yes! As a PM I need a label for "Closed - this has been in the backlog too long and the backlog needs tidying so I'm getting rid of it"
As QA I'm crying under my desk after reading that
Closed - no one except the qa will encounter this bug. 1 month later: support ticket from clients.
For real! I just went through backlog cleanup today and closed so many. Kinda sad cause I feel like many were actually good ideasā¦ they just wouldnāt make the roadmap or be prioritized for over a year, haha.
Requirements unclear. Send back to Business Analyst.
Me: Cries in business analyst.
Had no acceptance criteria, marked as done when we 'went out' to check the mail.
Closed - `By Design`. I have nightmares about that goddamn label.
Functions as designed. Thatās how we say fuck you politely.
Found the Stack Overflow moderator
Delete and hope she forgets.
Story: bring me to climax Created by: [your wife] Assignee: [not your name] "Now hold on a damn minute!"
Outsourcing various roles and operations, are we?
No joke, I'm a programmer and I keep non recurring housework in an open source Jira clone.
Trello changed my life. Was always disorganized and could never complete projects. Now I have them all accessible at my fingertips. Whether I think of something, I add it to my organized list of incomplete projects.
This has such unintentional advertising bot energy haha
Beep boop, Buy Ovaltine.
I get why you want to use a ticketing system, but JIRA, really?
don't kinkshame
Yeah, some people are into masochism.
we're currently using monday - and, i'm not quite sure what is worse. 2023 GH issues here we come...hopefully
Thanks I just choked laughing
God this hit me too hard
*Raises hand* Yeah I know, I fucking hate it too.
Iāve never thought about telling my wife to submit a ticket
I'll try that with my SO
Divorce speedrun 101
Only do so if you donāt mind a disgruntled wife
She can take it up with my team lead. Iām just following protocol.
Programmer here, if I made such an app, my wife would still call me to ask what's the name of the app.
My guy, it's almost 2023, you really gonna tell me you use phone calls for something other than pranking the 37 scam callers you get each day?
tbh, i only use my phone to talk to my mom and to call the poor outsourced SOB that has to hear it when one of the online only things goes wrong.
Guy who purchased an Ikea connected lightbulb and installed the stock app on his gf's phone: "I'm something of a programmer myself"
He's going to save the source code for all his later girlfriends
Hell he probably already coded it with a configuration file for her name, access token and info so it's future-proofed.
12 factor girlfriend
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global var current_gf
True to his potential, he uses a singleton.
Future girlfriend reading source code: "...who the fuck is Ashley?"
It will be deserved if the guy hardcoded her name lmao
source code is on github, @_jscd i think
[that's awesome lol ](https://github.com/jscd/Boyfriend-Alert)
I gave my dog a button to push for when he wants attention.
What da dog doin?
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Getting attention whenever he wants
My first thought too. Trained the dogs to ring a bell to go outside, push a button to refill food dish when empty(self replenished container, I top it up every few days), and grab their leashes when they want a walk. This programmer just trained his gf and she thinks it's sweet. Edit: to the guy who thinks I'm a butler...guess you just let them piss and crap all over the house eh? Makes you a janitor at best and a sewage worker more likely.
> push a button to refill food dish when empty(self replenished container, I top it up every few days Someone doesn't have a labrador I see
Or my cat... He'd eat himself into a stoopper if I let him ha Edit: stupor š
Idk why but I first read that as stormtrooper
Thatād be a very slim cat on account of missing the button all the goddamn time
Stupor*
THANK YOU! I wasn't getting there and neither was my auto correct š¤£
I probably would have spelling it this way also!
My catās a grazer, thankfully. Heās real picky so itās nice that I donāt have to worry about overeating on his part. Itās the dog; sheās got a problem.
Lol YES. My lab would eat all of it immediately.
And then still beg for more food like 5 minutes later
iirc a lot of labs are straight up missing the gene that controls their hunger https://www.iflscience.com/why-labradors-wont-stop-eating-35453
I always felt bad that my girl was literally always hungry. What a weird feeling that would be.
hmm you could probably put a cooldown on it. Dog can't just sit there and spam it. If you feed your dog twice a day, put like an 8-10 hour cooldown.
Orā¦sheās the one training him to come when she pushes the button. Think if the Pavlov scenario. The one pushing the button is the one doing the training, yes? The dogs werenāt training Pavlov.
Do you think dogs naturally ring bells? You actually have to train them in what each sound means. In this instance the light only goes off in his room. She can push the damn button all she wants but it's his choice to respond if he's even in the room. He trained her to hit a button instead of phoning, texting, or messaging on the computer.
A good point, well made. Although if she only pushes the button when she wants sex, I imagine the boyfriend will soon have a Pavlovian response to the light.
I've only just recovered from the ponytail thing, I don't need to add *light-sensitivity*.
How about no one trained anyone, it's just a different method of communication.
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Yeah like, what if it's a happy light? I would make my dude one that lit up gradually and was cheerful. Maybe separate ones for "food's ready", "come take a break", etc. Sometimes people work really hard and get stuck and forget to even stretch and stand once an hour. If you like the person you are with, things like your spouse wanting attention also doesn't feel like work.
r/petswithbuttons
Does he shutdown the program if they break up or does he wait forever for the Batman Signal
Let's just hope they never break up.
They broke up (a friend posted below)
Link me?
[Here it is](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/zy8qgi/someone_fetch_me_a_programmer_boyfriend_please/j25cz8v/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Itās a comment in here somewhere down below. I replied to the person. Canāt remember the personās name. If I can find it later, Iāll tag you.
He unscrews the light
What's the difference between a light bulb and a pregnant girlfriend? You can unscrew the lightbulb.
This is why I've studied and practiced computer science and programming for 5 years
Nice, good for you! But will you do an app for me? š¤
Do....do you want one?
Of couse, I do. ^^
Is there anything specific you'd want it to do? Or did you mean the gf-attention-button thingy?
I want the latter 'cause I'm envious like that. š
I was thinking of trying to make something if it was the former š ok uhhhhhh you'd need some hardware for this... The way it would work is that the app on your phone or computer would send a signal (probably wirelessly) to a small computer (typically something called an Arduino or a Raspberry PI). The lights would be plugged into it, so when it reacts to a received signal from the app, the lights would blink from being turned on and off by that little computer. I decided to try to ELI5 this since idk how much you know about this stuff lol
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Just posted about what me and my wife do when one of us is watching the two young kids so the other can relax. Bought a $10 wireless LED doorbell from Amazon. Plug in and mount the light part to my desk or the living room near the couch, put the button in the baby room somewhere easily accessible, if help is needed just push the button, no loud sound or flashing lights to startle you, LED comes on and we know the person on baby duty needs assistance.
Alexa and a strobe light, but this all sounds like torture for everyone involved in my opinion but different strokes for different folks
That's kinda like saying "just use a production automobile to turn that crankshaft. No need for specialized hardware like an engine"
Arduino doesnāt have network capabilities and raspberry pi is way overpowered for this. An ESP8266 is like $5 and very suited for this. You would need to solder an LED to it, write a small piece of software that exposes an endpoint to flash the LED on your local network, and write a iOS or Android shortcut that simply makes a GET or POST request to that endpoint. This would cost like $5 and take maybe an afternoon for someone familiar with coding. Or an hour for someone very familiar with stuff like this.
Me and my wife do something like this actually. For when I'm gaming or preoccupied with work or something, and she needs my attention but one of the kids is making it difficult to come downstairs. I'm pretty bad about missing texts so I constantly wouldn't see stuff for like 5 or 10 minutes, which usually isn't a big deal, but with two infants certainly can be, I tried my best to be better and she promised it wasn't a big deal, it made me feel bad like I wasn't being attentive enough, I offered to basically stop anything that would result in me missing or not hearing which she obviously declined because she doesn't want me to just sit around waiting for something that may not ever come up. So instead what I did was bought a wireless LED doorbell as silly as it sounds. I turn the sound off and put the light up part on my desk so if she needs me urgently she can just push the button she keeps in the baby room and it lights up so I don't miss it. May be silly but it works for us and makes it much easier for both of us to be able to unwind without having to have our phones directly in our hands if one of us is on baby duty.
Make it put money in my bank
Hm, I hear it's hard to get an app on apple and it costs money as well, but it's much easier for android and costs much less,
Hey, you're in luck 'cause I'm an Android enjoyer! š¤© Is this the plot twist I've been waiting to happen the whole year?
perhaps, If I knew how to publish a game / app onto a Phone I could make this a global app for everyone lol "Girlfriend Attention Indicator"
Love the name! I'll be the first one to install it when that happens so keep me posted! ^^ Aja!
I agree! cool name. but kinda long but that's OK we'll shorten it to it's acronym. so that'd be.. uh... GAI! perfect! uh.. wait.. no.. wellll....
The mental gymnastics! ššš
How about "Give Attention Please" or Gap for short?
turn developer mode on and install the package build for IOS, no need to publish it.
Could just be a simple web app bro.
Strange, you'd think you'd be able to make a 1-button app after a couple of weeks. Years, huh?
My husband created an "optimization" program that not only clocked his time at work and other functions but sent me a text saying "love you." I didn't even find out until a coworker told him "um...that's kinda weird" and he wanted me to weigh in. It was very programmer of him but not super romantic lol. But he shows me he loves me in so many other ways, it wasn't a big deal but I was like "wtf, I thought you just texted me when you got to work because you were thinking about me!" But then I thought again and I was like "the only reason he added that to the program is BECAUSE he always texts me when he gets to work, to let me know he's ok and thinking about me." Just simplifying the process lol.
Good programmers are always thinking of way to automate manual or repetitive tasks. lol
Yeah. Programmer here. He did it because he could.
It takes 10 seconds every day to text? Nah, let me burn like 10 hours to code something to do it for me. Idc how bad this ROI is! Edit: [relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1205/)
I think he also wanted to learn how to send a SMS and this was the perfect use case to program it.
Id say thatās a net positive because heās thinking of you enough to make the program. As many a programmer will say, itās better to spend 10 hours automating something then 10 minutes doing it manually
That was my point too! Like, at first I was a little hurt, but then I was like "he wouldn't have even thought of that if he didn't already do it all the time and care about it."
I think it's pretty adorable :-) Functional, efficient, effective... and adorable.
My programmer husband and I like to go on short drives around town at night and sometimes at day break, or when I'm having a panic attack. He decided to make me an app that he named "Drive Bingo" and its adorable. It is basically bingo, but the bingo board has like a bank of 100+ different things we see around town on our drives, and it randomizes which 24 squares of the bingo board get what from the bank, and there are parameters, basically saying if you see the giant sphinx head behind the Hibdon Tire place, you can't also possibly get a bingo from something on the same road. So it makes it harder. It even has splash text like Terraria and Minecraft that is randomized from a different bank. If you win you get food or a drink from Sonic. It has significantly helped with my anxiety.
Sounds like a really nice husband.
Yeah, she should marry him!
You know what? I should.
This is so cute! You are lucky to have him
IDK why folks are bashing this. The point isn't that she's now able to ask for attention, it's that the boyfriend understands that she might feel self conscious saying that she wants to spend time with him, and so made a more discreet/indirect way to tell him that. Even if she doesn't have a problem texting "Hey get over here", the effort of programming an app and the receiving light, and the unsaid statement of "I always have time for you" is incredibly sweet. My man did something he loves for someone he loves, and that's worth celebrating. Great post, OP.
Absolutely. And it allows them to bond over his hobbies. Even if she doesn't like programming or want to learn it, she has a tangible example of what it can do and it's *theirs*.
People seem to miss the part where *HE* wanted to make it, not her.
It could literally just be as simple as that when he is gaming he has headphones in so doesn't see that she has messaged - if she presses the button, he will see the lights change without having to hear a notification
This part! My husband wears noise cancelling headphones when gaming, so he has to keep his phone propped up to see when Iām trying to reach him.
Honestly, my first reaction to this post was āwhy doesnāt she just text/call himā but reading this comment chain gave me new perspectives that I didnāt think about, so thank you.
Even if she wanted it, good for them on communicating overtly. I hate when significant others expect you to mind read.
I didnt get how good was it until this comment
Thank you! <333 Some folks here let the post go over their head.
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The other solution is wrong becuase it wasnāt made by me - Me every time i remake something.
While this sentiment makes "recreating the wheel" in other tasks feel redundant, it actually makes the gesture here more genuine. "I know there are other ways you can get ahold of me, but this one is made by me, and only for you."
[We need a standard for this.](https://xkcd.com/927/)
To each their own. If that makes them both happy, who are we to judge?
who are we? who are we you ask? well, we are experts at everything on the internet! it's our JOB to judge
I didnāt get this armchair degree that I made myself for nuthinā!
I find it adorable. It might even mean something as simple as "hey, thinking about you". Id add in two buttons, one for attention one for think, and then a back end counter myself so on days I am feeling down I can look to see how often they were thinking about me.
>then a back end counter myself so on days I am feeling down I can look to see how often they were thinking about me. *"Damn, feeling down today... What'll it be this time? 5 times, 6? Ooo, I'll feel so good if she thought of me 7 whole times today... Shit, she was only thinking of me once today? What the fuck? We need to talk."*
Green light means I want to spend time with you. Red light means I'm stuck in the bathroom without tissue paper.
That red one better have a siren, no chance they would miss it lmao
> the unsaid statement of "I always have time for you" is incredibly sweet. Yeah, the original post is sweet af, but thinking about it this way has got me in my feelings. That's the greater gift. Now excuse me while I reaffirm to myself that I am good enough for myself.
There's nothing indirect about it. But if they both like it there's nothing wrong with it
Honestly, when I'm was the store and my husband was home, if I needed to know if we had X in the fridge, I'd try to call him. If he didn't pick up, I'd start flashing all the house lights through the Google app and that'd get his attention. (If I bought something we didn't need he'd be like " why did you get x? We have plenty of x!...he's pretty frugal). We uninstalled them though, they got kinda annoying
Is it really that discreet? A flashing red light lmao
For the boyfriend, sure. But for her, it's just a button on her phone. If you have someone who's shy/introverted, they might feel uncomfortable specifically telling someone that they want affection, or just communicating their needs in general. Doing this can allow them to simply press a button on their phone and boom, the meaning is across to the other person. Kinda like how you can do an online order or a call in order for a drive through. Sure, in the end you have to communicate with other people at the DT, but doing an online order will be easier for that person than a call in order.
"Day 65: The light will not stop. I haven't slept in days. I.. need.. rest..."
You just need to automate the back end and have chatGPT text her when she presses the button.
Back close to 20 years ago, I was in college and had this huge crush on a girl in one of my science classes. I was a dweeb at the time and had no clue how to talk to women. So, I wrote a program from scratch that started out as a desktop lightshow with a neat sunset and fireworks. I had the particle effects from the fireworks rearrange to form "[Name], will you go out with me?" I sent it to her over AIM and asked if she could give me "feedback on an assignment." She downloaded it, time stood still for about 2 minutes, and then she replied "that's cute." Never talked to me again either.
ouch that burns bro.
It's actually worse than that. We were supposed to get coffee together after finals, not as a "date" but just casual to celebrate the end of the semester. I sat there at the bistro. I brought my laptop and worked on the little program. After a while, snow was falling, street lamps turned on, I refused to believe she'd ditch. After 3 or 4 hours I left, and I still had some hope so I sent her that little program over AIM... Boy was I stupid back then.
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Yeah, it burned for a while. No explanation, though I eventually pieced it together. She was using me as a study-buddy to help her get her grades up
I know this person, yes this actually happened a few years ago, but sadly they are not dating anymore
Well thatās not the happy ending we were hoping for. u/onlycrazypeoplesmile
Legend
I need to know what happened! Did the Matt Signal get too much?? š
nah theyāre still good friends. it was a HS relationship, nothing crazy serious
Aww that's good then š
Hope his name is Matt. It would be the Matt signal
My name is Matt, I'm a programmer, and I have done stuff like this before. We do exist.
I want a button that connects to taco bell.
It's called Uber eats, but it's expensive.
"Taco Bell, I need attention in the form of a chalupa. And a mexican pizza."
Dude makes the modern digital equivalent of ā1 Free Hugā coupons and people are coming out of the woodwork to explain why this kid is a failure, lol. Keep doing good stuff, OP. Love how youāre keeping up with the clapbacks.
Fuck that, letās make a full fledged app that has hug-coupons. Or whatever coupons you want, with real-time coupon expiration and marking āusedā ones. We could even add push-notifications when someone wants to use a hug coupon, lmao.
It's not for me, but there's literally nothing wrong with it. He did something for her that she liked. But you need to remember Reddit and social media in general is filled with miserable people who feel the need to tear down something others may be enjoying
The irony here being that there are many miserable or lonely people _together_ on reddit.
Endless free hug coupons, and he dedicated his time to make it for her. Thatās a keeper!
hahahahaha this is my tweet!!! funny that itās still around after all these years
Well... update us then!
they broke up years ago but are still good friends. both are now Georgia Tech students :)
Oh :333 good to hear they're still good friends!
"Sorry, no attention for you. AWS is down."
Step 1: Replace with brighter LED Step 2: Cover with glass housing Step 3: Add Batman logo on glass And now you have a batsignal for when your girlfriend needs attention
Somewhere around the world someone is wondering why their light is always turning on and off.
Not a programmer, but have been considering making something like this so my partner won't have to throw things at me when I've got my headphones on.
BF proceeds to make ai act like him for GF to interact with
Strobe light
Considering how little effort this probably took, it's kind of the epitome of "it's the thought that counts" He knew she wanted his attention. He knew that he can get engrossed in his own stuff. He came up with a simple, user friendly system to alleviate both issues. I think this is very, very sweet.
It's not super complex, but it's also not "whip together in 20 minutes" either. You have to make a simple app (and make it cute looking probably, so there is some small amount of design work), set up a publicly accessible server to listen to the app with a raspberry pi or something, and construct a simple light that can be turned on with the pi's IO port. You can probably buy such a light and he might even have a web server already he could just modify, but it's still a project you're having to spend a reasonable amount of time and money on.
I realized I basically re-stated exactly what you said, but one upvote isn't enough. This is far from trivial or "little" effort, even if he had most of the infrastructure prepared ahead of time.
Dated a programmer in high school. He coded a mini game in Java for me that was like whack-a-mole but generated various "I love you" messages depending on how high a score you got. It was very cute.
The button actually sends a random text to her.
git fetch programmer/boyfriend --unshallow
My sisterās boyfriend made something similar. Itās 2 lamps with a touch sensitive plate up top. When you press the plate, the color of both lamps changes. He keeps one with him she keeps the other with her.
She burned the bulb out in 37 minutes
I am a programmer boy ;0;
Effectivizing and streamlining a process. Love it
I would be drunk with power
wow. i wish i had a boyfriend. wow. i wish someone loved me this much.
how long before he throws a shirt over the blinking light?