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I Was There When It Was Written
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1 day ago 55.8K views 0 shares
I Was There When It Was Written
The thousand-yard stare of someone who's survived COBOL, Fortran, and that one codebase from 1997 that nobody dares to touch. Senior devs don't just understand legacy code—they were forged in its fires, back when documentation was a sticky note and version control meant making a copy called "final_FINAL_v2_ACTUALLY_FINAL.txt". They don't fear the spaghetti; they've eaten it for breakfast for decades.

Before They Were Books
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2 days ago 64.2K views 0 shares
Before They Were Books
Remember the dark ages of programming? Two devs claim they've time-traveled, but when asked "when?" they decide to ask someone nearby for help. The punchline hits when they ask how to center a div (the eternal CSS nightmare) and get told to "look it up in the CSS manual." The final panel reveals this happened "before ChatGPT and StackOverflow" - back when we had to read actual documentation instead of copy-pasting solutions. Truly barbaric times. Some say senior devs still have nightmares about physical reference books.

Is It All C? (Always Has Been)
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3 days ago 77.4K views 0 shares
Is It All C? (Always Has Been)
The cosmic revelation that hits every programmer eventually - beneath the fancy logos and modern syntax, most languages are just C wearing different hats. Python, Java, JavaScript, and even C# are secretly C derivatives or influenced by C's design, while the Linux penguin awkwardly stands by knowing its kernel is pure C. It's like discovering your cool new friends are all related to that one weird uncle. The astronaut meme format perfectly captures that moment when you realize you've been living in C's universe all along, no matter how far you've tried to escape it.

The Three-Headed Dragon Of Rapid Development
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4 days ago 70.7K views 1 shares
The Three-Headed Dragon Of Rapid Development
The unholy trinity of "rapid development" is on full display! The tweet claims Git, JavaScript, and Microsoft BASIC were all created in under a week—which is hilariously wrong and the perfect setup for the three-headed dragon meme below. Two fierce dragon heads represent Git and BASIC—powerful tools that required significant development time. But that third head? JavaScript with its derpy eyes and tongue sticking out perfectly captures how JS was indeed cobbled together in 10 days by Brendan Eich in 1995. Fun fact: Linus Torvalds spent months creating Git after the BitKeeper controversy, and BASIC took significant development at Microsoft. Meanwhile, JavaScript—despite being slapped together in a mad rush to compete with Java—somehow powers most of the modern web. Proof that sometimes the derpy dragon wins!

Perfection Within The Week
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6 days ago 126.7K views 0 shares
Perfection Within The Week
The joke here is so absurd it's brilliant. Someone's claiming Git, JavaScript, and Microsoft BASIC were all created in a week, and therefore are "perfect software." Meanwhile, the three-headed dragon meme shows the reality: they're all monsters, with JavaScript being the derpy one. For those who've spent years battling Git's cryptic error messages, JavaScript's "undefined is not a function" nightmares, or BASIC's spaghetti code limitations, this is pure comedy gold. These tools took years to develop and are still far from perfect. The date stamp of 2025 is just the cherry on top of this satire sundae. It's the software development equivalent of claiming you can build the Golden Gate Bridge with popsicle sticks over a weekend.

Makes Sense (If You Don't Think About It)
Python Programming
9 days ago 64.5K views 0 shares
Makes Sense (If You Don't Think About It)
Ah yes, Pyrus Thonberg, the famous inventor of Python. Not to be confused with Guido van Rossum, who merely had the audacity to actually create the language. Search engines clearly know better than decades of programming history. Next up: Javanius Scriptopolous, inventor of JavaScript, and the elusive C. Plusman, who pioneered object-oriented programming while riding a unicorn.

When No-Code Solutions Trigger PTSD
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10 days ago 101.8K views 0 shares
When No-Code Solutions Trigger PTSD
The classic "monkey puppet" meme perfectly captures the thousand-yard stare of veteran programmers when someone claims "you don't need to be a programmer to write software." That statement might sound innocent to the uninitiated, but anyone who survived Visual Basic, FrontPage, and Dreamweaver in the 90s knows the horror that follows. Sure, drag-and-drop interfaces made software "accessible" – right until you had to debug the absolute nightmare of auto-generated code that looked like it was written by a caffeinated toddler with a keyboard. The right panel showing ancient UI builder software is giving me flashbacks I didn't consent to.

Turtles All The Way Down
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22 days ago 79.3K views 0 shares
Turtles All The Way Down
The cosmic joke of software development revealed! Astronauts floating in space discover that beneath all those fancy programming languages (JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, C++, Ruby, Swift) lies the humble C language powering everything. It's like finding out your sophisticated smartphone runs on hamster wheels. No matter how high-level and abstracted your code gets, you're still standing on the shoulders of that 50-year-old C giant, frantically manipulating memory addresses and forgetting to free your pointers. The "Always has been" punchline is perfect - seasoned developers nodding knowingly while junior devs have their existential crisis in real-time. Your React app? C underneath. Your ML model? C underneath. Your entire career? Just elaborately disguised C code.

Makes Sense (If You Don't Think About It)
Python Programming
23 days ago 75.8K views 0 shares
Makes Sense (If You Don't Think About It)
Ah yes, Pyrus Thonberg, the legendary creator of Python who definitely isn't a made-up name that sounds like a fusion of "Python" and "Guido van Rossum" with a Nordic twist. Google's search algorithm working its magic again! For those who don't know, Python was actually created by Guido van Rossum (not this mysterious bearded gentleman). This is what happens when you let machine learning algorithms write your programming history books. Next they'll tell us JavaScript was invented by Java Script and C++ by See Plusplus.

When Epoch Time Meets Political Commentary
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24 days ago 65.3K views 0 shares
When Epoch Time Meets Political Commentary
This is a masterclass in legacy systems biting back! The tweet explains how Social Security runs on COBOL (a programming language from the 1950s) where dates are stored using the ISO 8601 standard with an epoch starting 150 years ago (1875). So when a date is unknown, it defaults to zero, which COBOL interprets as 1875. The humor comes from Donald Trump Jr. misinterpreting Elon Musk's comment about this technical quirk as evidence of "150-year-old people collecting Social Security" – when it's actually just a database returning default epoch values! It's the perfect intersection of ancient programming languages, government systems that never get updated, and non-technical people drawing wild conclusions. Mainframe programmers are cackling while pouring another cup of coffee right now.

Just Found Out What Assembly Is...
Programming C++ Debugging Backend
28 days ago 87.7K views 0 shares
Just Found Out What Assembly Is...
Remember when coding meant wrestling with assembly and reading manuals thicker than your college textbook? Those 70s programmers didn't have Stack Overflow to cry on—they had biceps from carrying documentation and nightmares about memory allocation. Fast forward to modern times where we're practically coddled by interpreters that say "Aww, you forgot a semicolon? No worries, I'll pretend I didn't see that." The hardest thing we do now is decide which framework to abandon next month. Every time I have to touch low-level code, I silently thank the buff psychopaths who came before us. They weren't programmers—they were digital blacksmiths forging code with their bare hands.

Father Of Programming
Programming
1 month ago 94.3K views 0 shares
Father Of Programming
Dad jokes and programming puns - the ultimate combo that keeps marriages strong! While she thinks he's daydreaming about another woman, he's actually plotting how naming his son "Programming" would make him the "father of programming" - a title otherwise reserved for legends like Charles Babbage. The recursion in this joke is just *chef's kiss*. Peak dad humor meets computer science in one glorious pun that probably cost him cuddles for a week.