Technical pedantry Memes

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Me At An ASCII Party

Programming Networking

2 months ago 74.3K views 0 shares

Me At An ASCII Party

The technical pedant has entered the chat! Nothing screams "I'm fun at parties" like correcting people about character encoding standards at an ASCII art gathering. That person standing in the corner made of slashes and asterisks is silently judging everyone who casually calls it "ASCII art" when it should be "ISO-8859 art" — because obviously that's what keeps them up at night. It's the digital equivalent of being the guy who corrects people saying "Frankenstein" when they mean "Frankenstein's monster." Congratulations on being technically correct — the most insufferable kind of correct!

No, Css Isn'T A Programming Language

Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming Databases

2 months ago 137.3K views 0 shares

No, Css Isn'T A Programming Language

The eternal web dev holy war, SpongeBob style! Patrick innocently asks if CSS is a programming language, only to be shut down by Squidward's technical pedantry that "it's a style sheet language." But Patrick, undeterred by such trivial distinctions, immediately follows up with "Isn't SQL a programming language?" — perfectly capturing how these debates never end. The real joke? The people who get most worked up about these classifications are usually the same ones who can't center a div without StackOverflow. Next up on Patrick's list: "Is HTML a programming language?" *Squidward has left the chat*