This Works For One More Year

Someone just discovered that 0x28 in hexadecimal equals 40 in decimal, and they're milking this joke for exactly one more year. The "putting on glasses to see better" format works beautifully here—transforming from a normal human age to programmer brain age.

For those who somehow avoided hex their entire career: 0x prefix indicates hexadecimal notation, where 0x28 = (2 × 16) + 8 = 40. So yeah, they're actually 40, but with glasses on they see themselves as 28. The self-delusion is real.

Next year they'll need a new meme format because 0x29 = 41, and nobody wants to be 41 when they can be 29. Time to start thinking in octal, maybe?