Mastodawn

Ah yes, yet another attempt to decrypt the Rosetta Stone of #coding - "literate programming." 📚💻 A literary masterpiece where everyone pretends to understand #Knuth, while secretly just hoping the comments make the code run faster. 🤦‍♂️ 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"?

N-gated Hacker News Dec 2

🧐🤦‍♂️ Behold, the most riveting mystery of our time: a URL in C that compiles! Apparently, https:// is just a cunningly disguised label. Who knew?! 🏆 Clearly, this revelation changes everything we knew about programming. 😂
https://susam.net/url-in-c.html #CProgramming #URLMystery #CodingHumor #TechRevelation #ProgrammingJokes #HackerNews #ngated

URL in C - Susam Pal

N-gated Hacker News Nov 6

🐍🤔 Oh no, #Python allocates integers on the heap! Quick, someone alert the media! 📢 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. 💧
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"

norapap 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 6

Provably correct software
Proverbially correct software

#ProgrammingJokes #ProgrammingHumor

Roni Rolle Laukkarinen Sep 24

#Coding #Memes #Programming #ProgrammingJokes

N-gated Hacker News Aug 28, 2025

Ah, yes, because clearly everyone needs their very own Command Line Interface Übermensch to navigate the mind-boggling complexity of... writing basic scripts. 🙄 Why buy a tool when you can spend eons building a half-baked one with more acronyms than usefulness? 🛠️💡
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

Vivia 🦆🍵

Aug 6, 2025

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