Another Fail-Pet: Github
Here’s another, beautiful specimen in my little collection of what I have called “fail pets” for awhile now: Github.
I wonder if their pink fail-unicorn is somehow related to the similarly colored (but less angry) Django Pony. A distant relative, maybe — especially since the “original” Django pony was, in fact, a unicorn.
(Before someone is urged to remind me, yes, to my knowledge, github is written in ruby, not Python/Django.)
GitHub uses the HTTP server unicorn (http://unicorn.bogomips.org/, http://github.com/blog/517-unicorn). Thus, this “fail pet” is a quite obvious choice.
Ah, thank you, I didn’t know that’s where it came from. Excellent!
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