HackerTube
HomeLongsLikedHistoryWatch laterCategoriesPlaylistsSettings

Code Monkey

spiffworld1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2020-2021
YouTube
7.4M views · 20 years ago · music · evergreen

A fan-made music video for Jonathan Coulton's song 'Code Monkey', about the life of a programmer, using World of Warcraft footage. It was made by Mike Spiff Booth.

Mostly brought up as a joke or nostalgic reference when the term 'code monkey' comes up.

Music performance & songsGaming culture & analysisSatire & parody#jonathancoulton#codemonkey#worldofwarcraft#machinima#geekculture

3 comments from Hacker News

@hprotagonist2021 · in “White Collar Holler – Stan Rogers”

▶ this video code monkey think maybe manager wanna write goddamn login page himself code monkey not say it / out loud code monkey not crazy / just proud

JokeView on HN
@noir_lord2021 · in “Google: 'Reverse Warrants' Becoming Law Enforcement's Go-To Investigative Tool”

Pretty much. I was a lead (or the equivalent since titles change) after 5 years way back in the day and I really shouldn't have been. The thing is the job titles are pretty much meaningless as I've never worked two places that had similar criteria for what they considered junior, regular, senior, lead and in some places seniors are leads (if you only have 1 senior on a team of 8 they are a lead, if you have 6 seniors on a team of 8 and no lead then are they really senior and to who). Other places promote on time served, so you are junior 2 years, regular dev for 2-3 years, senior after that. It's one of the reasons when hiring I completely ignore their previous titles and look at what they actually did . I've seen juniors who where at least equivalent to seniors in other places and "Seniors" who I wouldn't have hired as a junior. My favourite title in my entire career (and it was my actual title) was "Code Monkey"[1], it got entered as a joke in the HR system and everything after that sort of followed on even my business cards (remember those?) said it (since company ordered them and did a mail merge from the HR system). [1] ▶ this video

JokeView on HN
@DonHopkins2020 · in “Jarrett Heather presents: Word Crimes (2014)”

I'm delighted your stopped by! Thanks to you and Weird Al for all of your dastardly animated criminal words. Your Shop Vac cartoon led me to discover Jonathan Coulton's other geeky music, like Code Monkey! He makes his songs available via the Creative Commons license, so people have made some really cool videos to them, including yours. link link Shop Vac: link Code Monkey videos: ▶ this video >Jonathan Coulton is a singer/songwriter who releases his songs via the Creative Commons license, which enables projects such as this video. Through his "Thing A Week" podcast, Jonathan has put out a clever, creative song like this one every week for a year. >Mike Spiff Booth is a Program Manager at Adobe who though this great song really deserved a video. >Before you ask, since apes, goblins, and night elf receptionists don't tend to interact much in the wild, I couldn't only use captured game footage to make this video. Every frame of this video was composited together by hand using images captured from the WoW Model Viewer, WoW Map Viewer, and the World of Warcraft game itself. >No monkeys were harmed in the making of this film. >Please visit www.spiffworld.com for more information about my videos, including info about how I make them. >The song at the end of the video is "Big Bad World One", another great Jonathan Coulton song. link >This was an animation that was done in about 2 1/2 weeks. My friend Tom Weiser and I wanted to put together a short for a free ASIFA event. We are b

RecommendsView on HN
The Secret of Monkey Island (Intro) (PC Speaker theme)1:14

The Secret of Monkey Island (Intro) (PC Speaker theme)

Stan's Previously Owned Soundtracks
191K views • 15 years ago
iMUSE Demonstration 2 - Seamless Transitions2:28

iMUSE Demonstration 2 - Seamless Transitions

Peter Silk (KestrelPi)
37K views • 16 years ago
Interview with Senior JS Developer5:28

Interview with Senior JS Developer

Kai Lentit
2.3M views • 4 years ago
Crash Bandicoot Co-Creator Andy Gavin: Extended Interview | Ars Technica2:13:40

Crash Bandicoot Co-Creator Andy Gavin: Extended Interview | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
246K views • 6 years ago
Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 [NEW]6:45

Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 [NEW]

Kai Lentit
735K views • 2 years ago
Episode 2 - All The Cool Kids Use Ruby5:49

Episode 2 - All The Cool Kids Use Ruby

gar1t
166K views • 16 years ago
Richard Stallman Free software Song2:03

Richard Stallman Free software Song

BeatStock
692K views • 19 years ago
Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)4:48

Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)

CYBERGEM
581K views • 3 years ago
Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast5:59

Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast

Kai Lentit
572K views • 4 years ago
Interview with Senior Rust Developer9:46

Interview with Senior Rust Developer

Kai Lentit
1M views • 3 years ago
The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert5:38:11

The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert

The Video Game History Foundation
71K views • 5 years ago
Totally Gridbag2:43

Totally Gridbag

Spuddy
23K views • 19 years ago
We're Gonna Build a Framework4:08

We're Gonna Build a Framework

Dylan Beattie
231K views • 10 years ago
MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark5:09

MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark

MC Frontalot
1.2M views • 19 years ago
Land of Lisp- The Music Video!4:14

Land of Lisp- The Music Video!

lisperati
197K views • 16 years ago
Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech5:26

Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech

gar1t
294K views • 14 years ago
Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush  - creative common licence56:09

Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence

znoopy2k
171K views • 17 years ago
Badgers : animated music video : MrWeebl1:14

Badgers : animated music video : MrWeebl

Weebl's Stuff
36.1M views • 18 years ago
James Mickens on JavaScript11:46

James Mickens on JavaScript

tablet reader
49K views • 11 years ago
Hitler reacts to functional programming4:00

Hitler reacts to functional programming

Rymdkraftverk
275K views • 7 years ago