I coded my first “serious” app for the Flipper Zero this week, and it’s the first time in my 30-odd years as a programmer that coding something felt slightly weird for two totally silly reasons:

  • Each time the Flipper crashes, the dolphin makes a sad face. I know it’s just an animation but… somehow it bothers me each and every time 🙂

  • Most of the API calls start with Furi-something. And each time I write one, I can’t help but think of this. Also, there’s nothing furious about cute dolphins - apart perhaps when I keep clubbing them with null pointer dereferences… And yes, I know its stands for Flipper Universal Registry Implementation. Yet my brain can’t help conjuring up images of cute dolphins being clubbed in a post-apocalyptic desert.

Call me weird I guess…