A fortune database of infamous error messages, cursed dialogs, and legendary software failures. Install it and let your terminal remind you that things could always be worse.
$ fortune failures
Task failed successfully.
- fortune - the classic Unix program (
brew install fortuneon macOS) - Task - a task runner (
brew install go-task)
Compile and install the fortune database:
task install
This compiles the failures file using strfile, auto-detects your fortune directory, and copies the files there.
Once installed, display a random failure:
fortune failures
Add new entries to the failures file. Each entry is separated by a % on its own line:
Your new error message here
%
Then run task compile to rebuild the database.
This project is licensed under the ISC License. The license covers the code and tooling only — the fortune text contents are attributed to their original authors and owners.