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Molly Struve (she/her)
Molly Struve (she/her)

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What's your best software pun?

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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Molly Struve (she/her)

Here's a couple from the pun king himself, Aaron Patterson.

Liquid error: internal

Liquid error: internal

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

Oh, the typed ruby one is so good ๐Ÿ˜€

I will use it next time someone brings up typescript!

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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Jamie Gaskins

Them: Why do you hit the keys so hard while you're coding?

Me: I'm practicing strong typing!

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shushugah

A painful and epic exchange at the last European Ruby Conference, hosted on a cruise ship in Rottermda, Netherlands!











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Rubin

How JavaScript developer break ups:
I promise to callback later

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Abraham Williams

The two hardest problems in software development are:

  1. naming things
  2. cache invalidation
  3. off-by-one errors
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Evaldas Buinauskas

A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?"

Classic ๐Ÿ™‚

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Dinesh Pandiyan

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.

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Lauren Brassaw

Thought they were tired of fiddling with their bossโ€™s backend!

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paul vincent

Can someone explain this to a German?

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Ben Winchester

Arrays sounds like "a raise". Google translate says "Gehaltserhรถhung" means pay raise.

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Ali Almohsen

But instead got an object? Badoom tss

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kaylani maka corneau • Edited

Oh, I thought maybe it was getting a little too app_le'y ;$

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M. Ray Mullins

Not a pun, but old-school fun with COBOL:

88 RESOUNDING-CRASH. VALUE โ€œYESโ€

PERFORM BACKFLIPS-AND-SOMERSAULTS UNTIL RESOUNDING-CRASH

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Michiel Hendriks

I have to interrupt this thread. I would normally not do this, this is an exception.

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Michiel Hendriks

A digital kanban board isn't as tearable as a bunch of sticky notes.

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Michiel Hendriks

Don't push me to commit or I'll git ya.