My code passed every test.
Then someone had the audacity to use it.
#01A LITTLE JOKE. A BETTER DAY.
Developer jokes. Works on my machine.
Tests pass. Users arrive. Everything gets interesting. These five clean programming jokes are for people who have shipped a “temporary” fix, negotiated with a bug, or explained their entire afternoon to a rubber duck.
Selected from Jokello’s reviewed collection. All jokes on this page use the clean setting. No account needed to read.
JOKE 01 JOKE 02 I named a variable “temporary”.
It has now outlasted three managers.
#02JOKE 03 The bug asked for a promotion.
It had been in production longer than anyone else.
#03JOKE 04 I wrote a script to save five minutes.
I should break even next November.
#04JOKE 05 My rubber duck asked for a day off.
Apparently, I have been dumping a lot on it.
#05
A little context helps the joke compile.
The testing and temporary-variable jokes fit a team chat without much explanation. The rubber duck joke assumes you know rubber duck debugging: explaining a problem aloud to an object to work through it. Choose the joke your audience recognises, and let the shared experience do the work.
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