A Web Developer’s Life in FoxTrot
My girlfriend knows that I make websites but not a whole lot more about how I spend so much of my time. She at least knows the basics:
- Calling me a "webmaster" is the biggest insult you can hurl at me.
- I'm a MooTools fanatic.
- I have little design skill but mad programming skill.
That's why I was shocked when she found my life in a FoxTrot comic! Here it is:

It's as if Bill Amend was in my head. Anyone else feel this way sometimes too?
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It’s so true it’s frightening…
so true so hillarious.
Absolutely true, it’s like looking in a mirror.
You should see the follow up strip. It’s even better. (Btw, that’s quite an old strip. I am surprised you see it now.)
I feel like that just a little too often…
Please add that calling you an evangelist insults you, too :D
Eeek. Yeah, that’s about right ;)
I got my degree in design while learning web development on my own, which eventually evolved into my job now, so I think I have a pretty good balance but I definitely do have to fight off the design-skipping urge sometimes.
Lol this is great! That was me 2 years ago! Then i realized that the design is actually !important :)
Hilarious.
Spot on.
Someone is talking about a follow up strip.
Must….. ……see…… …….now!
ROFL
HILARIOUS
ha, so true
everything i’ve done that ends up looking good it’s because i
copiedmodified the design from something elsehaha. its funny.
thanks man. i bookmarked the website.
i found some other interesting stuff too.
I was literally just thinking about how great my Javascript web framework is when that image popped up! It didn’t even seem to load..
It’s Very Versatile Electronic Document – VVED.. get it?