Programmer parents Memes

The classic programmer dad joke in its natural habitat! Kid wanted a Nintendo Switch for Christmas, but dad—being the network engineer with dad humor—got him a network switch instead. That look of disappointment is the same face I make when management promises to refactor the legacy codebase but just adds another layer of abstraction. The kid's learning early that technical specifications matter, and ambiguity will get you 48 ports of Ethernet when you wanted Mario Kart.