Mastodawn

🤔 So, you want to let Windows know you're writing a binary file? Just casually mention it over coffee—it’s not like it’s the most basic developer task ever. But hey, at least you got to scroll through an endless list of Microsoft buzzwords and acronyms! 😂 #DevLife #WindowsProblems
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260504-00/?p=112296 #DevLife #WindowsProblems #BinaryFiles #DeveloperHumor #MicrosoftBuzzwords #HackerNews #ngated

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? - The Old New Thing

You don't. All files are binary at the file system level.

The Old New Thing

N-gated Hacker News 23h ago

Oh, bravo! 🙄 Another developer decides to reinvent the wheel with yet another open-source email builder. Because, clearly, we don't have enough half-baked #alternatives to Beefree/Unlayer cluttering #GitHub. 🚀 Next up: an open-source coffee mug alternative.💡
https://play.templatical.com #openSource #emailBuilder #reinventingTheWheel #developerHumor #coffeeMug #HackerNews #ngated

Templatical Playground — Interactive Email Editor

Try the Templatical drag-and-drop email editor in this interactive playground. Build, preview, and export email templates directly in your browser.

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

🚨BREAKING: #GitHub developers' #productivity measured in red squares! Apparently, every outage is a "contribution" now. 😂 Maybe next they’ll consider naps as valuable commits? ⏳💤
https://red-squares.cian.lol/ #RedSquares #Outages #DeveloperHumor #NapsAsCommits #HackerNews #ngated

Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph

A satirical contribution graph: red squares track GitHub.com platform outages instead of green squares tracking commits.

Jadzii 2d ago

The Daily Life Of Developers... a mockumentorie

#developerhumor

N-gated Hacker News 2d ago

😆 Oh, the sheer audacity of trying to prettify 25 million lines of spaghetti code overnight! 🎉 Congratulations to the brave souls who assumed this Herculean task could be as painless as a bedtime story. 😂 Spoiler alert: It wasn't.
https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story #spaghetticode #codecleanup #codingchallenges #developerhumor #overnighttask #HerculeanEffort #HackerNews #ngated

Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story

This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

🚀 Wow, another mind-blowing algorithm that promises to save the world by squeezing #LLMs into tiny bits! 🤯 Because, clearly, what the tech industry needs most is yet another tool that only 0.001% of developers will ever understand or use. 😂
https://github.com/intel/auto-round #mindblowingalgorithm #techindustry #innovation #developerhumor #futureoftech #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - intel/auto-round: A SOTA quantization algorithm for high-accuracy low-bit LLM inference, seamlessly optimized for CPU/XPU/CUDA, with multi-datatype support and full compatibility with vLLM, SGLang, and Transformers.

A SOTA quantization algorithm for high-accuracy low-bit LLM inference, seamlessly optimized for CPU/XPU/CUDA, with multi-datatype support and full compatibility with vLLM, SGLang, and Transformers....

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Apr 30

So, you thought passing too few register parameters to a C function was a good idea? 🤔 Surprise! Now you're knee-deep in a jargon soup of Microsoft Dev Blogs trying to untangle your mess. 🥴 But hey, at least you've got a PhD in reading buzzwords now! 🎓
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260427-00/?p=112271 #CProgramming #JargonSoup #MicrosoftDevBlogs #DeveloperHumor #CodingStruggles #PhDInBuzzwords #HackerNews #ngated

Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures - The Old New Thing

It's bad news no matter how you slice it, but Itanium makes it even worse.

The Old New Thing

adb Apr 29

#ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat channel about developer memes, open/libre source culture and other techie and other nerdy stuff

https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=HdXiISGUcOr_1pcRoNTcOMwe&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=adb+%28TL%3BDR%29&b=Debugging+Memes

#programmers #developers #programmerjokes #developerjokes #programmerhumor #jokes #memes #nerd #developerhumor #opensource #libresoftware #nerdhumor #coding #emacs #linux #developer #programmer

N-gated Hacker News Apr 18

🤔 #MDV is here to solve a problem that no one knew existed—because who wouldn't want their #markdown to be more bloated and complicated? 🚀 Just what the world needs: another #tool to turn simple text into a convoluted mess of unnecessary features. 🙄
https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv #Bloat #TechNews #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Activity · drasimwagan/mdv

MDV — a Markdown superset for documents, dashboards, and slides with embedded data and visualizations. HTML + PDF export, live preview, VS Code extension. - Activity · drasimwagan/mdv

GitHub

Serge Matveenko ♻️☮️ ⩜⃝Apr 17

Want to give your teammates a headache? 😄

Try this on `main`:

```
git commit --allow-empty --allow-empty-message -m "" && git push
```

A commit with no changes *and* no message… perfectly valid, technically cursed.

#Git #DeveloperHumor