2025-11-0211:58642739stickertop.art
Welcome to stickertop.art Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. This project celebrates the art and culture of laptop personalization each…
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By Octoth0rpe 2025-11-1215:106 reply I've had my eye on this pack of stickers for my next laptop upgrade: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1133836260/cursed-programming-s...
(the joke here is that all of the tech has the wrong logo, ie the javascript sticker has a java logo, the vscode sticker has a vim logo, etc)
By tgtweak 2025-11-1216:14 It's actually kind of concerning how these just look normal at first glance
By toobulkeh 2025-11-1216:58 I would get these if they were all OSS alternative logos with the paid names.
I feel like the GitHub one needs an inverse GitLab one. Otherwise it might look like you just have a GitLab logo and GitHub text logo separately.
By timeinput 2025-11-1218:55 I think of GitHub more with the octo cat logo (couldn't find a good link for it, and didn't want to hug anyone too hard, so no link), or their current logo: https://github.githubassets.com/assets/GitHub-Mark-ea2971cee... and not so much the stylized words GitHub.
By Dragonai 2025-11-1216:00 This is incredible
By dvtkrlbs 2025-11-1216:04 This is awesome
By Octoth0rpe 2025-11-1218:222 reply I certainly do like being able to quickly categorize people into groups of those who can find humor in such stickers, and those who will get angry over them. Seems pretty useful in determining whether or not I would want to continue engaging with them :)
By Ferret7446 2025-11-1321:26 Unfortunately it's hard to tell at a glance whether it's a joke or the owner is extremely incompetent (though a quick conversation should reveal that)
By hk1337 2025-11-1221:14 Like the 5 people that downvoted my question.
> Your real middle class refuses to show any but the most bland books and magazines on its coffee tables: otherwise, expressions of opinion, awkward questions, or even ideas might result. -Paul Fussell, Class
The greyification of our lives, the loss of whimsy and kitsch and being too afraid to be a little cringe, I get the sense that a lot of people associate "growing up" as the loss of any and all expression: we wake up in our grey beds in our millennial grey house, drive to work in our grey car to work in our grey cubical, etc, etc. If you want a gauche laptop covered in stickers, do it, embrace the gauche. Everyone sneering at you is more miserable than you.
It has nothing to do with that.
A good portion of these stickers are to do with things that are political or quasi political. What tends to happen is that a lot if times people have been burned in someway for supporting an idea or a cause. This is often because people have been fooled by charlatan, or it was later revealed that things were more complicated or different than they were led to believe.
Cringe and why people hate it is best explained by watching the very first episode of the UK office.
Most people want to go to work, turn up and do their time and go home. People that are often top enthusiastic are difficult to deal with day to day. People that adorn their personal possessions with slogans are seen as a warning sign.
I think it's more a very lame flex. Macbooks were expensive and if you were walking around the office with a Macbook it was because you were important enough to convince management to buy you one instead of some crappy Dell. Eventually enough people get Macbooks that you need another way to stand out so you slap a bunch of cheap stickers all over it to show everyone, "See, you coddle your trophies. I beat mine up because it's just a tool and I don't care. I'm too busy gettin' it done!"
By tlavoie 2025-11-1221:00 My work devices don't have much on them, mostly corporate asset tags and the like. My own, though, I make my own. The stickers reflect things I like or find amusing; maybe they'll get a smirk or a chuckle from someone else, maybe not.
In the end, they're like the tattoos that someone else commented on. (I have those as well.) If you appreciate them, great! If you don't like them, that's fine too. Fundamentally, they're not for you.
By zcw100 2025-11-1221:38 NASCAR for nerds :)
By gopher_space 2025-11-1322:50 Stickers on my laptop make it easy to see if anyone's making off with it.
By 2OEH8eoCRo0 2025-11-1215:173 reply [flagged]
> sacred knowledge?
I think you might be romanticizing this, a bit. When you convince the public that not talking about something is the best course of action, they become a lot easier to control. We learned this during WWII with the propaganda machine that was fully employed on all fronts, and arguably before that with the work of Edward Bernays and people like him. If public discourse and debate could be quashed, then it was much, much easier to simply tell everyone what their opinions of a thing should be.
By 2OEH8eoCRo0 2025-11-1216:591 reply Where do I say not to talk about it?
By jakeydus 2025-11-1217:20 I think that on its face the term "sacred knowledge" kind of communicates an intimacy that indicates that it's not something that's shared with people who don't have a privileged relationship with you.
I think the big difference now is that people have a megaphone in the form of social media and they forget just how wide the statements they shout through it can spread.
By creaturemachine 2025-11-1215:54 Prior to secret ballots being a thing you would have voted "viva voce" by saying your preference aloud. Violence and intimidation were common.
By marcosdumay 2025-11-1216:011 reply There's no problem with publicly engaging in politics. In fact, it's a great thing to do.
What is a problem is doing it on an environment where participation is mandatory or required for basic survival.
I think generally people are I'll equipped to engage publicly in politics. Politics is an extremely dirty game and can be extremely divisive.
By 2OEH8eoCRo0 2025-11-1216:31 My friends are willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. Strangers usually only offer shallow ridicule and trolling- especially online.
But why so many stickers? Why so many tattoos? Why not pick one you very much like and agree with? Less noise. More signal. Less is more.
I don't like many of the ones mentioned on this website but here are some minimalist examples [1] [2] [3] [4] and an exception I do like a bit because of the custom shape [5]. [1] is more like a skin.
[1] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/20250221_00333...
[2] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/laptop_cover.j...
[3] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_1259.jpg
[4] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_5753.JPG
[5] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/54917193947_1f...
By q3k 2025-11-1215:00 > But why so many stickers?
I 'unno, it's fun I guess?
I see a sticker I like somewhere, brain goes 'heh, neat' and so I put it on my laptop with the other stickers. There's not much more to it.
By imwillofficial 2025-11-1420:52 My stickers will one day have layers as I stack them again and again. Anthropologists of the future will be able to trace my beliefs, humor, and tech stack from my laptop lid alone, adding to the corpus of knowlege for tech workers in the late american period.
By ant6n 2025-11-1223:21 Well, you cant argue about taste.
By korse 2025-11-1215:40 I happen to heartily agree with you but now we're talking taste and... yeah.
By JKCalhoun 2025-11-1213:43 Thank you. I have tried to raise my daughters that way despite, potentially, (occasionally) embarrassing myself or the family.
God, I can't stand living in an artless world.
By ymsodev 2025-11-1221:36 I feel like this direction of thinking is also a bit reductionist: there are plenty of reasons not to want to put stickers on a laptop. For me, personally, I don't like stickers because a year or two later, they don't represent how I think anymore. It's not an expression I would make today, it's a ghost of my old expressions.
And I feel like this greyification is only true in theory from the perspective of the manufacturers. I still run into plenty of people that are not afraid to decorate their space, laptop, or whatever else.
Greyification actually makes sense precisely because everyone has a different way of expression. That's why canvases are still white; you just have to find a different primer.
By fipar 2025-11-1213:59 "Go ahead on Mr. Businessman You can't dress like me"
Jimmy Hendrix, If 6 was 9.
Has another relevant spoken word bit about waving his freak flag :)
By ebarila 2025-11-1214:32 its cringe because its not an original expression, its overdone and heavily political and obnouxious.
By cortesoft 2025-11-1217:08 I don't judge people who put stickers on their laptop, but for me I don't simply because it brings me no pleasure or joy. I have never really understood decorative things in general. It is probably part of my neurodivergence, but I just don't get value from decorative things.
By 12_throw_away 2025-11-1219:12 TBH I think putting stickers on your laptop is a practical imperative, as it makes it much less likely that you'll accidentally grab someone else's.
By kbelder 2025-11-1223:26 Not everybody copying a fanciful trend is, themselves, a fanciful independent free thinker.
By constantcrying 2025-11-1214:532 reply [flagged]
I like to view it as living authentically and seizing every opportunity to add a little color or whimsy to the mundan, but to each their own.
By jakeydus 2025-11-1217:24 Yeah, OP's username seems pretty appropriate
By constantcrying 2025-11-1217:382 reply Authenticity is in your heart. Putting stickers onto your laptop, which is the least authentic thing for a software developer to do, makes you just look ridiculous.
By thepryz 2025-11-1712:17 Authenticity is behaving in a way that is true to yourself. In this case, putting stickers on a laptop or otherwise decorating it is a form of art and self expression. It’s not complicated or controversial.
I do it because it can be creative and fun. It adds color to an otherwise gray and boring surface and provides a practical way of identifying my laptop from everyone else’s.
When I was in school, we used to cover out textbooks with brown paper bags and then drawn on them. How is this any different?
You seem to have you entire identity tied to the notion of what you think a software developer is and that everyone should conform to that idea. I’d rather have people be creative, embrace fun, and add color and self expression to the world. We could all use more color in our lives.
I'll be honest I think that dying on the hill of "putting stickers on your laptop [...] is the least authentic thing for a software developer to do" makes you look pretty ridiculous.
By constantcrying 2025-11-1218:451 reply Doing something, which is so extremely commonplace does not make you unique in any way.
Do you really think something, which is so extremely common among software developers, has the potential to showing your uniqueness.
The hill I will die on is that I despise outward signaling, especially outward signaling of something like "uniqueness".
And yet here you are, signaling to others your uniqueness by saying how much you hate the way that they signal theirs. It's not that deep, man. This sounds like a really tough way to live and I genuinely wish you the best of luck with your vendetta against *checks notes* people expressing themselves with stickers on their laptops.
By constantcrying 2025-11-1311:32 >And yet here you are, signaling to others your uniqueness by saying how much you hate the way that they signal theirs. It's not that deep, man.
I don't think my opinion is particularly unique and certainly I do it to appear unique.
>This sounds like a really tough way to live
It is much easier, because I do not have to be worried whether people see me as unique.
>I genuinely wish you the best of luck with your vendetta against checks notes people expressing themselves with stickers on their laptops.
Thank you.
My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…
By lIl-IIIl 2025-11-128:08 That's how git commits work.
Current laptop stickers: current state.
Photo of the previous laptop: reference to previous commit.
By ostwilkens 2025-11-129:08 I love this... I haven't had the courage to "spend" my sticker collection on my current laptop, as they obviously don't last forever. A solution could be to photograph the old cover, and print it as a full-size sticker as a starting point for the next laptop!
By saltcured 2025-11-1218:00 That's how my laptop home directory used to look. A subdirectory with a copy of the prior incarnation's home directory ad infinitum...
By samtheDamned 2025-11-1418:56 I am totally going to do this now. I always hate when I have to leave my old laptop stickers behind and this is such a neat way to keep them around.
By portaouflop 2025-11-1213:32 Keep it going! I did that to my Facebook pfp (they also have stickers) - after a few years it became this abstract, glitchy work of art. I don’t use fb anymore but still remember that fondly
By nticompass 2025-11-1213:02 I didn't go that far, but I did take the back cover from my old (stickered) laptop and hang it on the wall.
Like my primary storage, with the old storage in a sub folder.
There's still a WP51 folder in there somewhere...
By dwd 2025-11-131:43 Obligatory XKCD
By drob518 2025-11-1212:10 Stickers all the way down.
