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todays fun programming fact:

10.02.2026 08:33 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Good start adorned with the text "abandoned yet another personal project"

Good start adorned with the text "abandoned yet another personal project"

10.02.2026 08:30 👍 170 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 2

As they say, don't roll your own crypto*

*) unless you're an extra special clever boy

05.02.2026 16:28 👍 44 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If notepad++ was written in rust none of this would have happened

03.02.2026 08:45 👍 88 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 2

9 out of 10 C developers recommend storing raw and cooked meat in the same container

20.01.2026 17:30 👍 94 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

15.01.2026 00:54 👍 758 🔁 183 💬 12 📌 4

adding a tier to my patreon where you get to ssh into my computer and do whatever

07.07.2024 19:27 👍 60 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

*gets woken up by interrupt* eeeughg...aehhgj.......gg..

15.01.2026 20:18 👍 60 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0

I am literally being haunted

13.01.2026 20:20 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Bluesy notification screenshot: "Derrida has followed you"

Bluesy notification screenshot: "Derrida has followed you"

Not this guy again...

13.01.2026 20:10 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not many people appreciate the laconic beauty of an artisanal linker script nowadays... shame..

13.01.2026 17:07 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
jana h-s tweet from Nov 15, 2022 reading:

fun computer fact!

if moore's law holds true, by the year 2025, each of your teeth will contain a tiny computer, screaming for your attention at all times. their small, terrified voices will whisper you to sleep every night, like scared children describing shapes in the dark

jana h-s tweet from Nov 15, 2022 reading: fun computer fact! if moore's law holds true, by the year 2025, each of your teeth will contain a tiny computer, screaming for your attention at all times. their small, terrified voices will whisper you to sleep every night, like scared children describing shapes in the dark

06.01.2024 14:51 👍 75 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

You are welcome ⚠️ invalid handle

09.12.2025 14:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not now sweetie, daddy is late for his shift at the integer factory

09.12.2025 11:40 👍 68 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Custom Haskell RTS that plays the Wilhelm scream every time a partial function is evaluated

03.12.2025 08:31 👍 40 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

Custom C runtime that plays the Wilhelm scream every time a standard library function is invoked

03.12.2025 07:00 👍 86 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 3
DESCRIPTION
 Never. use. this. function.

DESCRIPTION Never. use. this. function.

01.12.2025 05:43 👍 98 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2

Fun fact: while many other languages have syntactic sugar, C is the only language with syntactic hydrochloric acid

28.11.2025 14:52 👍 176 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 2

The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything

27.11.2025 16:11 👍 393 🔁 84 💬 9 📌 6

Tip: There is never a good reason to write a function with a signature different from void f(void *)

26.11.2025 12:53 👍 53 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

Everyone is laughing at you in the group chat man. They're saying you don't even formally verify your code

24.11.2025 06:36 👍 49 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It is no surprise that latex was invented by famous pervert don knuth

23.11.2025 11:04 👍 44 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1

At the most fundamental level, bloodborne is a game about maintaining legacy code

21.11.2025 14:30 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

The cat has once again deployed a devastating DDoS attack against my "lap" microservice, causing me to miss work,

20.11.2025 11:36 👍 72 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

The scrum master smiles at nobody in particular. "Time to have a bit of fun! This week's retro will be Harry Potter themed" My eyes instinctively dart towards the exit. The padlocks are already in place

19.11.2025 19:24 👍 61 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

The problem with words is that they are sometimes only 16 bits. Try using dwords

19.11.2025 10:56 👍 69 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Assessing the quality of a random number generator is luckily quite simple. Every time it gives you a value, ask yourself: did I expect this to happen?

18.11.2025 21:13 👍 84 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1

shut up shut up shut up

18.11.2025 18:01 👍 59 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

haha yeaahhhh bestiee

18.11.2025 17:58 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mr bomberguy thank goodness you're here. I have been brutally plagiarized by C++ . All that array shit you hate is me!! It's all MY bad design! Please kill bjarne stroustrup

18.11.2025 17:57 👍 53 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0