Ah yes, yet another attempt to decrypt the Rosetta Stone of #coding - "literate programming." πŸ“šπŸ’» A literary masterpiece where everyone pretends to understand #Knuth, while secretly just hoping the comments make the code run faster. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Spoiler alert: It’s like Shakespearean sonnets but for the terminally nerdy.
https://pqnelson.github.io/2024/05/29/literate-programming.html #literateprogramming #humor #techliterature #nerdculture #programmingjokes #HackerNews #ngated
What even is "literate programming"?

πŸ§πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Behold, the most riveting mystery of our time: a URL in C that compiles! Apparently, https:// is just a cunningly disguised label. Who knew?! πŸ† Clearly, this revelation changes everything we knew about programming. πŸ˜‚
https://susam.net/url-in-c.html #CProgramming #URLMystery #CodingHumor #TechRevelation #ProgrammingJokes #HackerNews #ngated
URL in C - Susam Pal

πŸπŸ€” Oh no, #Python allocates integers on the heap! Quick, someone alert the media! πŸ“’ As if the Python team hasn't been dealing with this trivial "discovery" since the dawn of time. Maybe next week we'll get to the bottom of why water is wet. πŸ’§
https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/how-often-does-python-allocate/ #Heap #Memory #PythonCommunity #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #ProgrammingJokes #HackerNews #ngated
How often does Python allocate?

The answer is "very often"

 Provably correct software
 Proverbially correct software

#ProgrammingJokes #ProgrammingHumor

Ah, yes, because clearly everyone needs their very own Command Line Interface Übermensch to navigate the mind-boggling complexity of... writing basic scripts. πŸ™„ Why buy a tool when you can spend eons building a half-baked one with more acronyms than usefulness? πŸ› οΈπŸ’‘
https://martinfowler.com/articles/build-own-coding-agent.html #CommandLineInterface #ScriptWriting #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #ProgrammingJokes #HackerNews #ngated
Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI

How to build a CLI coding agent

martinfowler.com

Me, telling my brother about a hard day: "and I was facing a hard problem with my code at work, and I also had to take care of that leak I had failed to fix in --"
Him, thinking: "(surely that must be C code)"
Me: "-- the bathroom sink"

#ProgrammingHumor #ProgrammingJokes

Two memory locations talk. One says:
- Just so that we are on the same page…

#programmingjokes

A la la la la int64,
A la la la la int64 int64 li int64 int64 int64,
Come on!

#programming #programminghumor #programmingjokes #swdev

Rex Wang rewrote Kafka in Rust, creating StoneMQ - a blazing-fast, efficient message queue.

#Rust #Kafka #rustlang #programmingjokes

https://wangjunfei.com/2025/06/18/Rewriting-Kafka-in-Rust-Async-Insights-and-Lessons-Learned/

Rewriting Kafka in Rust Async: Insights and Lessons Learned in Rust | Rex Wang

Rex Wangs blog