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My favorite database shirts
- harrisonjackson 3y agoBefore clicking through I had that mongodb shirt in mind as my personal favorite. I got a few of them at aws reinvent in like 2012. 2nd favorite is a Cassandra one of similar make.
- laxd 3y agoPostgreSQL? And OracleDB as a joke christmas present?
- nemo44x 3y agoMongoDB deserves credit with bucking the trend of sans-serif fonts that it seems like every tech company has gone with. Their choices of colors too - brown and green are earthy and unique in the tech landscape. Very bold choices by them and a reflection on their direction of being a very different type of database.
- KnlnKS 3y agoWhile I don't have a MongoDB shirt. I do happen to have a pair of MongoDB Shoes (from the Vans brand). They're quite good and probably some of the best swag I've gotten from a tech brand.
- antifa 3y agoIf you're a leftist of any kind, my favorite is this parody shirt called OurSQL: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/OurSQL-red-and-yellow-by-BojanglerGTX/46918299.FB110 https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/OurSQL-red-and-yellow-by...
- mattsears 3y agoIf you like Ruby, there's a bunch of nice shirts (and more) at https://popruby.com https://popruby.com
- Galanwe 3y agoI have that same MongoDB shirt from FOSDEM 2010. I remember it vividly as that year, the infantilization of developers by companies was at its peak. MongoDB had a stand with hired girls in pump up bras distributing tee shirts. Google had its stand with the same girls proposing some "funny quizz" to win some blinking LED toy and an interview slot.
- graypegg 3y agoCypress, the test runner, was offering up a free t-shirt if you attended any webinar in 2019. The test engineer on my team at the time got us all in on leaving the webinar open in the background. We got a full team set of Cypress shirts! Was the uniform for demos for the next couple sprints haha I still have a couple (we did it multiple times) and actually really like them. Same 50/50 blend as the mongo shirt.
- bawolff 3y ago> "Promoting your database system or start-up with a shirt is almost as important as getting the thing to actually run. As I've told my students several times, in the world of databases you don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle...A good shirt can get people to feel like your DBMS is going to solve all of their application's database problems." I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious, but either way is a sad reflection on the state of the DB industry.
- icelancer 3y agoI got that MongoDB shirt at a conference in Seattle about 10-13 years ago as he stated. He ain't kidding. It's a great shirt. Now I gotta go find it in my closet...
- shaunxcode 3y agoNever realized how much I would like a datomic shirt until now.
- bigdict 3y ago[flagged]
- 123pie123 3y agowhats clickbait about it? it looks like blog about how he likes his t-shirts I can't see any ads - although my firefox extentions will be blocking them if there was any
- KomoD 3y agoThere's ads.
- rafram 3y agoThere are no links to buy any of the shirts on the page. It's a tongue-in-cheek comparison of startup swag.
- cbb330 3y agoScroll to the bottom.
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoAre you talking about the footnotes at the bottom? There are no links to buy the shirts there either...
- KomoD 3y agoNo, the ads injected by Disqus
- nlarew 3y agoSeems like everyone here is running an Adblocker! The post uses Disqus for comments and has the built-in (garbage) ads enabled. I think it's likely that the OP uses an adblocker too and never even saw the ads on his own site.
- adamretter 3y agoPersonally I love my Redis shirt and my RocksDB shirt - both excellent materials and colours.
- TuringNYC 3y agoI am biased since I worked at KineticaDB, but the KineticaDB t-shirts were the best swag I've ever received. I have a closet full of them, 3x/yr across the three years I was there. I wore some socially and fashionably, and others at the gym. They used high-end fabrics comfortable for day and night. I think about ROI on marketing and this must be incredible w/r/t Employee alignment. Imagine having employees wear your brand day in day out!
- dylan604 3y ago3x/yr X 3years == closet full how small is your closest? i've heard how small apartments can be in places like NYC/SF, but if the space provided for your clothes is filled by 9 t-shirts, i'm going to need to re-evaluate small again.
- dminor 3y agoThe 50/50 shirts are great. I've got a stripe shirt that first turned me on to them and I went online and bought a bunch of blank ones in different colors. My current company found a similar shirt from bella+canvas that is also great. It and the stripe shirt are the only vendor shirts in my regular rotation.
- dylan604 3y agoWouldn't it just be easier to find 50/50 t-shirts without the branding and not be some tool of a walking billboard rent free? Edit: Ignore this. Reading comprehension clearly needs work
- cocoflunchy 3y agoIsn't that exactly what dminor did?
- dylan604 3y agoYou're right. I misread " went online and bought a bunch of blank ones in different colors." by completely reading past "blank ones" and thought they went to get different colors of the branded shirt. reading comprehension was always a skill set lost on me
- leetrout 3y agoI will toss out a second vote for bella+canvas being a modern equivalent to the american apparel of yesteryear. What is very frustrating is I have 2XL shirts from 2007-2009 that fit better than a 4XL from 2022. I've tried to narrow it down to brands and blends and the 50/50 or tri-blend shirts have held their true sizes for longer but somewhere along the way every brand has seemed to have gotten smaller by full inches. In underarmor polos I now buy their tactical line to get the equivalent of their "loose" fit from yesteryear. It is so frustrating and sometimes a huge money waste buying shirts. The longest lasting shirts in my closet are some Hurley and Billabong shirts from Hot Topic and similar from 2010 or earlier. For any conference organizers or swag buyers reading this, please start offering up to 4XL in any cheap brand shirts, especially 100% cotton, even if it is preshrunk.
- ecshafer 3y agoI don't like MongoDB as a technology, but I have that T-Shirt and its super comfortable.
- computerfriend 3y agoSame, and I didn't realise I was holding the number one best database t-shirt in my wardrobe.
- monknomo 3y agoMe too, though mine is getting on towards too threadbare to wear in public
- lai 3y agoDoes anyone know of a place to buy techie t-shirts made by next level apparel?
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- thesh4d0w 3y agoYou can just buy the screenprinting blanks, unless you really want the logos. I personally get them from wordans.com.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoIt was so cool to see Mike Stonebraker's face on a t-shirt! Back in grad school, I was lucky enough to be on a research group that he helped lead. He was totally unpretentious, and at the time I had no idea what a big deal he was in the database world.
- zellyn 3y agoFor some reason the Google Fiber T-shirt that Google gave out in Atlanta is almost indestructible. I've worn mine routinely for years, and still see other people wearing them sometimes. Not sure exactly what the secret was, but boy would I love to know!
- zmj 3y agoYup. I’ve had one of the North Carolina Google Fiber shirts for well over a decade. I walked by the office a few weeks ago. It’s vacant and looked trashed inside. There’s a metaphor there.
- powerset 3y agoMust be the quality of the fiber
- zellyn 3y agotouché
- danielvf 3y agoI've gotten several Google Fiber t-shirts from a local thrift store, and I can confirm - great shirts! I think they are NextLevel.
- zellyn 3y agoNextLevel as a superlative, or https://www.nextlevelapparel.com/ https://www.nextlevelapparel.com/?
- jroseattle 3y agoIt's been 20+ years but I loved this shirt for it's SQL agnostic-ity: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lol-code-geek-select-from-users-where-clue-0-uh-oh-zero-rows-were-returned--179440366374366064/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lol-code-geek-select-from-user... (This shows the shirt you could buy once-upon-a-time from thinkgeek, which appears to be no more...) I believe they used beefy-t brand shirts, which was like the nicest thing you could get for t-shirts at the time. (Personal opinion, don't @ me.)
- leetrout 3y agoI think my wife finally tossed all my old thinkgeek shirts. I had a huge collection from my college years including "There are only 10 types of people in this world...", "man love" and "there's not place like 127.0.0.1". Who has filled this void? I know xkcd had/has some geeky shirts and they shut down too.
- easton 3y agoCotton Bureau has some, although they are kind of pricy.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoHmm, I too miss the good ol' days, though I have more old tattered Threadless shirts than ThinkGeek. I suppose something like shirt.woot.com might be where the (nerdy) kids today look?
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- mcoliver 3y agoMy favorite I found on Amazon: I keep all my dad jokes in a Dadabase
- jdelman 3y agoI disagree with nearly this entire post, which is fun. I find that the poly blend shirts that the author loves (especially like the MongoDB shirt) are clingy and sweaty. Softness is low on my list of shirt priorities - comfort and fit are high. I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech, but maybe I'm too mired in tech to have an outsider's perspective. Also, that dark heathered grey color is everywhere in tech shirts right now and it just screams tech. The only one of these with a good design is the Altibase shirt, but it suffers from having the ugliest color. Give me black, 100% cotton, heavyweight Hanes Beefy-Ts with retro-looking logos.
- tannhaeuser 3y ago> I don't know how you could see "mongoDB" and not think it is tech Idk but mongo-anything has clearly insulting connotations hasn't it? I'm not a fan of cancelling language at all but still find it very surprising a product with that name could advance that far in enterprise computing. I guess I had hoped the article would explain the joke I was missing here. Update: ads on a CMU site?
- PawgerZ 3y agoAccording to the founders "mongo" came from "humongous" not "mongoloid". Additionally, "Mongo" has never had insulting conotations in America, as far as I know. Also, if you weren't aware, Mongo is an ethnicity and a language, should we force them to change the name?
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- djbusby 3y agoThat shirt, with long sleeves. My go-to for 20 years.
- airstrike 3y agoSomewhat off-topic but for those who want a black, 100% cotton and lighterweight t-shirt, IMHO nothing compares to Intimissimi[0] They run a bit small so I recommend one size larger than your regular size. They're currently on sale from Black Friday so only $14.30 each. (Large Black is now out-of-stock, sorry!) They also make many other varieties like v necks, long sleeve, modal/cashmere/ etc. (Claimer: I'm not affiliated or getting a referral from this... I just think they're a lesser known brand in the US) __________ 0. https://www.intimissimi.com/us/product/short_sleeve_crew_neck_t_shirt_in_supima%C2%AE_cotton-CMU12G.html?dwvar_CMU12G_Z_COL_INTU=019 https://www.intimissimi.com/us/product/short_sleeve_crew_nec...
- ifaxmycodetok8s 3y agoI had that exact MongoDB shirt. Got it from a hackathon back in 2014. Was such a soft shirt. Loved it.
- throw0101c 3y agoThe History Guy recently posted "A Brief History of the T Shirt": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_xyrZCSo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_xyrZCSo8 Generally: started out as undershirts, became work shirts (especially in the USN during WW2), and then folks just started wearing them on a daily basis post-war, mostly in 'misfit' / counter-culture groups in the 1950s (especially amongst teenagers), and the hippy culture embracing them in the 1960s.
- danielvf 3y agoLike the author, my favorite t-shirt of all time is an early 2010's American Apparel blend shirt, (though mine is a Stripe CTF3 winner shirt.) However, American Apparel changed something mid decade, and I've never been able to get anything close to as comfortable as those shirts. My current standard shirt are the NextLevel tri-blends, which are almost as good, and can be ordered plain online, or you can find them with all the logos you want in thrift store near techie areas.
- ellisv 3y agoDid Andy update something about this post (from 2016)?
- apavlo 3y agoNo. I've been meaning to do an updated article but I've been unfortunately too busy. A bunch of companies send us shirts to give out to students: * https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1659019035818729472 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1659019035818729472 * https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1335045678876270592 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1335045678876270592 * https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1125465168023048193 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1125465168023048193 * https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/996191088372322304 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/996191088372322304 * https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/862320227601850368 https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/862320227601850368 My highlights from the last 6-7 years: * DuckDB (European embroidery!) * Materialize (like Snowflake) * Yellowbrick (wild designs) * Timescale (old logo was popular) -- Andy
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago(2016)
- stickfigure 3y agoI'm in the print space and this post is weird. I have that exact same green MongoDB on the AA 50/50, as well as a couple other MongoDB shirts printed on different blanks. Somebody picked the design, picked a blank, and printed a batch. Next week somebody else will pick a different blank, maybe even for the same design.
- nofinator 3y ago+1 for how great the Snowflake t-shirt is (ranked #3). I wore it a lot during the COVID era, and the poly blend is still soft and has withstood a lot of washing and drying. When we signed onto Snowflake in 2019, a week later a surprise HUGE box of swag arrived, with a dozen shirts and lots of other things. Our team and corner of the office became The Place To Be for a while.
- sbuttgereit 3y agoI've gotten a couple PostgreSQL t-shirts over the years when I volunteered for this or that. My favorite one is the one for the release of PostgreSQL 8.4. It's simply blue on white and the design is after one of the boxes from the periodic table of the elements: with "Pg" in the middle and (as I recall, it's not in front of me now) and an "atomic weight" of 8.4. The other was for the release of PostgreSQL 9.0 when replication was introduced. It's a blue shirt with white print. That banner feature is the prominent text on the front and a herd of Elephants charging at the viewer like you might see a stampede of horses do on a western movie's poster. Good designs celebrating milestone events for the project.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoMy favorite t-shirt has the Azure logo in the style of the Amazon logo on the front, and the AWS logo in the style of the Azure logo on the back. https://github.com/jogerj/misbrands/blob/master/azure.svg https://github.com/jogerj/misbrands/blob/master/azure.svg https://github.com/jogerj/misbrands/blob/master/aws.svg https://github.com/jogerj/misbrands/blob/master/aws.svg
- redhale 3y agoThis repo, and the other forks of its original which have even more "misbrands", are going to have me ordering some custom sticker sheets here shortly, thanks for sharing! The AWS/Azure and Java/JavaScript ones are good, but the Vim/VS Code one is gold.
- easton 3y agoDid you have that made or is there somewhere to buy it? This is the exact kind of dumb shirt I’m looking for
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoI had CafePress make it for me. I originally tried SpreadShirt, but they rejected the design due to copyright.
- erwinkle 3y agoI have like 6 of those MongoDB tshirts and they are SO COMFY
- montanalow 3y agoIf anyone would like a free PostgresML T-shirt, we just did our first run. Feel free to email me with your shipping info and size. It'd also be nice to get to know you a bit if your email address isn't obvious.
- geffchang 3y agoIf you ship the Philippines, would love to get one. First time to hear about PostgresML. Email add in profile.
- reducesuffering 3y agoYou need to put your email in your profile. People aren't going to comment it.
- Icathian 3y agoEchoing the other commenter, I'd be very interested but I can't find an email address to ping you. I'm a database geek and would happily rep your stuff!
- geophile 3y agoI worked at Akiban for nearly its entire history, and I don't think I even saw one of their t-shirts.
- xbar 3y agoNone of those compare to my Legend of ZDLRA: A Link Between Databases shirt but I’m grateful to have a forum to review such things.
- turtlebits 3y agoTableau used to give employees t-shirts multiple times a year (I had at least 15 by the time I left). I had a favorite I'm now reminded used "Next Level" shirts. Time to go buy a bunch of their blank t-shirts.
- DonHopkins 3y agoI used to have a really nice tie dyed Microsoft DirectX t-shirt that I got as swag from the Microsoft booth at CGDC the year it was released, that I loved to wear to Linux and open source software conferences, to make people's heads explode.
- nlavezzo 3y agoI'm partial to my FoundationDB shirts :)
- _dan 3y agoI have a MongoDB shirt of the same vintage and I can confirm they are indeed soft AF.
- achileas 3y agoStill waiting for a vendor to hand out some branded y-back tanks