Yesterday I realized that I had included a great pun in my Cache is King conference talk(besides the title of course!) without even knowing it.
My team and I were bound and determined to find the root cause of our MySQL woes
So my challenge to you is, what is the best software pun you have heard or you yourself have dished out?!
The more cringe-worthy the better!!!
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Why was the developer unhappy at their job?
They wanted arrays.
More at dad-jokes repo by the bos man Wes Bos. I chuckle every time I open up that repo.
Can someone explain this to a German?
Arrays sounds like "a raise". Google translate says "Gehaltserhƶhung" means pay raise.
But instead got an object? Badoom tss
Oh, I thought maybe it was getting a little too app_le'y ;$
Thought they were tired of fiddling with their bossās backend!
How JavaScript developer break ups:
I promise to callback later
The two hardest problems in software development are:
The best one I have ever heard is
A programmer accused of unreadable code refuses to commentšš
Classic š
Love this one
Here's a couple from the pun king himself, Aaron Patterson.
Liquid error: internal
Liquid error: internal
Them: Why do you hit the keys so hard while you're coding?
Me: I'm practicing strong typing!
Oh, the typed ruby one is so good š
I will use it next time someone brings up typescript!
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Not a pun, but from the index of the dBASE III Plus manual back in the '80s (when software came with printed manuals so big you could kill someone with them):
The DOM people see -
The DOM I see -
punch cards. No, not really, I'm not that old.
My personal favorite is probably this Rick Cook quote:
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
TCP is just SYNACKtic sugar.
A painful and epic exchange at the last European Ruby Conference, hosted on a cruise ship in Rottermda, Netherlands!
Boss: How good are you at PowerPoint?
Me: I Excel at it.
Boss: Was that a Microsoft office pun?
Me: Word.
Don't push me to commit or I'll git ya.
Forking a repo is no cutting edge technology. A branch manager could do it.