When I was in elementary school, I won a science fair, and travelled to the far-off land of Moscow, Idaho for the state competition. While there,...
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I don't understand stickers.
I went to a conference last month, the first one I've ever been to. There were a couple of tables with stickers strewn on them but they seemed to have nothing to do with the conference and there was no indication of whether any of the people hanging around had anything to do with them either. I took a couple of glances as I went by, but didn't feel like slowing down because it felt like I was intruding.
Is that helpful? People who see your armadillo-in-a-hat sticker and also think it's cute will talk to you about cute; people who know it's from BigCompanyEcks will try to talk to you about tech and you won't know what they're on about.
I don't carry a computer with me (other than my phone) and if I see someone with a lot of stickers on their (inevitably) Mac Pro I tend to not engage with them because I expect them to be part of some sort of exclusive scene. Got a Ruby sticker? You must be a Ruby expert with a million twitter followers who wouldn't want to talk to someone like me. Covered in stickers? You must have enough cash lying around to have the latest equipment (because why would your company let you do that?) and go to a lot of conferences and be really "successful" in that particular sense and I wouldn't have anything valuable to say.
I'm just saying I find them off-putting. I get that other people like them, though. When I was a kid I liked stickers with spaceships and animals on them.
I'm sad to hear you feel like it's exclusionary or intimidating. I don't think most of us want to give off that impression.
If I see someone with a Ruby sticker, I figure they hack around in Ruby. When I see a totally clean laptop, I assume that someone isn't a stickers-on-computers person, but I may offer them a spaceship sticker for their water bottle. I don't usually carry my laptop with me, either, because at a conference I'm trying to listen, not work, but I like that when I'm at a hackathon or something, it gives people conversational endpoints to access.
I love that stickers let me know who writes code and maybe what type of tech they're into.
I've had a couple interesting coffeeshop chats which started with stickers.
I've met DEV folks because I spotted the sticker on their laptop. That is always great.
(psssst! I could use a new bunch next time I see one of y'all. I'm out.)
I personally am not a fan of stickers on my own laptop.
I'd have to be extremely passionate about or interested in a particular technology/company/thing to put a sticker representing it on a laptop. If I found a sticker related to a particular technology or company that I wasn't extremely familiar with, I wouldn't put it on a laptop even if I thought it looked cool.
I feel the same way about bumper stickers on my car; I have a few, but they're very relevant to me as a person and my interests; they're not just for general aesthetics.
Nevertheless, I do enjoy seeing stickers on other people's laptops and using them to initiate conversation. There have been a few rare times where I ask someone about a sticker and they admit to having no idea what it is, which is slightly awkward.
I think a good conversation-starter is to also have non-technical stickers, from Bands, Whisky-Brands, Ponies, Pride-Orgs etc. Imagine meeting someone at a conf who is also into Chattanooga Whiskey (devlids.com/lids/newtorob).
There's also lots of funny and creative compositions around, like devlids.com/lids/mcmd
omigosh, that one is great!
Definitely, I love stickers haha
New Relic x2, Realm (that's the beautiful but unlabelled sunset one), Docker, GitHub x3, Angular.
WHERE DID YOU GET OCTOCAT PUSHEEN? I NEEDS IT.
From this I deduce that you either like awesome stickers or you are a javascript nerd from the southeast who sometimes meddles with front-end and sometimes with data-crunching.
I mostly work with javaScript Stack, but I had the chance to work with different technologies.
I got the Octocat Pusheen in an event named Talent Land(Mexico) and most of them in Campus Party (Mexico), some concerts (Murderess, Apalachian Terror Unit and Victims), some gifts and technology events (like meetups).
You missed some interesting stickers: Invision x3 (invisionapp.com/) and Atom x1
:D
I dislike stickers when they overlap each other and look like a mess, but I like your hexagon approach. How do you get this many hexagonal stickers of uniform shape? Do you print them yourself?
No, they are all following the standard published format. It is easier to find open source projects that do this, but I know npm, LaunchDarkly, and some other commercial or hybrid companies also use the standard. The laptop in the picture (not mine) has 3 npm stickers, for instance, and a bunch of Ruby stuff, either Ruby itself or conferences.