[khazhoux]

"Lovable" derives from the hipster-developer trend that started around 2010, where endless web, CSS, or app frameworks were tagged "Made with love in <cityname>", or "Made with love by <author>".

So silly. Like, was the gcc toolchain made with cold indifference? Were linux and git made with Scandinavian longing? Was emacs made with a certain sense of ennui?

[headmelted]

> Were Linux and git made with Scandinavian longing?

He’ll never tell you. He’ll just stare sullenly at you on a crisp November evening through the frost-coated glass of your remote log cabin until slowly he’ll raise one hand bearing his middle finger, without breaking eye contact or changing his expression.

“Pass that along to Jensen Huang” he’ll whisper. Then with a surge of the creeping blizzard outside your window, he’ll be gone forever.

[politelemon]

Who was that, Huang would inquire.

Oh... Just my arty ex.

[candleknight]

This is hilarious, I'm changing all my websites to have "Made with cold indifference by $NAME" in the footer now

[layer8]

I think I’ll use “Made with slight annoyance”.

[collingreen]

Hand crafted with mild arrogance

[Turing_Machine]

I think I'll try "Made with bellowing rage".

[ghthor]

I write quite a few things purely fueled by rage

[d4mi3n]

Lots of folks build software for the heck of it and I'm in full support of any poetic license any author wants to take with their work product. We could all do with a little more silliness. If you were involved with the Ruby community back cica 2005 - 2012, you may remember how beloved _why was and their attitudes around programming and creativity.

I think I'll need to start saying I write code with American cynicism or Californian gusto.

[layer8]

“Made with love” is just cringe though, and after having become pervasive also can’t be taken at face value anymore. That aside, if a product is made with love, it will show by itself. No need to declare it in case someone wouldn’t notice.

[scubbo]

"Being made with love is like being powerful. If you have to tell people it was, it wasn't"

[sph]

You can be silly and original. Being another team of young engineers that really love coffee and call themselves code artisans is anything but original.

It's like the widespread humanistic art style that 99% companies have adopted in the 2010s to show they are not another faceless corporation, but instead are a friendly business where you matter.

[Turing_Machine]

I think you may be talking about "Corporate Memphis" and yes, it is hideous.

Makes me think of a Stepford kindergarten.

[SilasX]

It eventually culminated in one company getting in trouble for listing “love” as an ingredient in their granola:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/fda-decla...

[trimethylpurine]

Looks like a marketing stunt to me.

[layer8]

It’s clearly false advertising. ;)

[morbicer]

I agree that "with love" is a bit silly, your counter-examples are hilariously on point though.

[vvanpo]

I always thought the "made with love" taglines were inspired by the same Clay Shirky talk: https://youtu.be/Xe1TZaElTAs?si=3hUBnk8IXIzlXw4i

[httpsterio]

just to nitpick, Finland isn't a part of Scandinavia. Fennoscandia or Nordics would be more apt.

[khazhoux]

Damnit, I even did a Google search first because I suspected that was the case.

[Turing_Machine]

> Like, was the gcc toolchain made with cold indifference?

You're familiar with Richard Stallman, yes? :-)