25 Computer Programming Memes to Reboot Your Day

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John Summers • Contributor
Mar 4, 2025 9:00 PM EST

If you're the go-to tech expert in your family—the one who magically "fixes" the Wi-Fi by rebooting the router or who gets called every time someone accidentally turns on Airplane Mode—then you know the struggle. The moment you successfully pair a Bluetooth speaker or manage to print something without a meltdown, you're suddenly the household IT department.

This collection of 25 memes perfectly captures the highs, lows, and absolute absurdity of being the tech-savvy one in your friend group. From the never-ending "have you tried turning it off and on again?" to the deep suspicion that printers have a personal vendetta against humanity, these memes will hit home.

So, take a well-earned break from explaining that Google Chrome isn't "the internet" and enjoy some laughs. Because for once, the only error message you'll see is the one warning you that you're laughing too hard.

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  • 01
    The interview The job
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    Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik Follow Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don't suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3 8:22 PM Jan 16, 2019 X
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    Scott Hanselman and 8 others follow Kelly Vaughn @kvlly I'd love to watch a movie where programming is accurately depicted. A team is trying to quickly build an app that will save the world. The app won't compile. Someone keeps adding to the scope. The project manager is asking for an update every 15 minutes. 8:20 AM Oct 2, 2019 Twitter for Android 189 Retweets 1.1K Likes 17 Kelly Vaughn @kvlly 6h Replying to @kvlly "You're not following proper agile protocol!" "Joe, this is a life or death situ
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    Programmer: there is no way a user won't know how to use this interface User: SILVERADO
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    > D Paul Graham replied Tawanda Nyahuye @towernter What is the biggest lie you have heard from a programmer? 6:42 PM Jul 10, 2020 Twitter for Android 362 Retweets and comments 1.4K Likes Paul Graham 27 1 @paulg. 7h Replying to @towernter "It should work now."
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    </> Crack FAANG @crack_faang Follow I saw a software engineer today. No company swag hoodie. No stickers on their laptop. No mechanical keyboard. He just sat there. Typing away on our default IDE. Like a psychopath. 6:29 AM Jul 10, 2021 X
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    Code that does 1000 things Code when it's updated to do 1001 things
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    albertzakhia 2h HTML is not a language, hence not comparable with c++, JavaScript or Python 14 Q8 d3layd now ☑ You're gunna hate it when you find out what the L stands for in HTML
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    WALE Programmers worried about Chat GPT Mathematicians who survived the invention of the calculator First time?
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    Funny Banter @Kingijosh Follow Me: I'm so sorry, my dog ate my homework Comp Sci Professor: your dog ate your coding assignment? Me: Prof: Me: it took him a couple bytes 11:15 AM Jan 29, 2020 X
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    joyce carol ma... @jon-christian.bs... Follow computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumba s who is constantly wrong tech CEOS: let's add it to every product
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    Can you write code for this? Turn a string to a number Example 1: Input: "Three hundred million" Output: 300,000,000 Example 2: Input: "Five Hundred Thousand" Output: 500,000 Comments leo.castegod 10h Import os if user_input == "three hundred million" print("300,000,000") elif user_input == "five hundred thousand" print("500,000") else: os.remove("C:\Windows\System32") Reply 19896
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    @deepfates This is the software equivalent of a message smeared on the walls in blood 8 // Dear programmer: 69 // When I wrote this code, only god and 10 // I knew how it worked. 11 // Now, only god knows it! 12 11 13 // Therefore, if you are trying to optimize 14 // this routine and it fails (most surely), // please increase this counter as a 15 16 // warning for the next person: 17 // 18 // total hours wasted here = 254 19 // 20
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    thespian2 @thespian2 Replying to @eschapman and @BJSmithArt Old IT friend told me he never asked the person on the phone if the network cable was plugged in, but rather "unplug the cable, blow on it to clear the dust, and plug it back in." Gave them a chance to save face, when they found it was actually unplugged.
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    Prisoners In Finland Live In Open Prisons Where They Learn Tech Skills Risto Paasivirta RP For your crimes i shall sentence you to a two year course of JavaScript.
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    Who wrote this Ugly code?! Blame YOU (1Year ago) oh.. a C I am making Progress! (1) & dev.nasserjunior.com
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    I'M A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER FOR PRINTERS
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    Don't shoot, I'm software developer THAVE BILLION DOLLAR IDEA FOR APP, YOU CAN MAKE IT? @Think Technical Shoot
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    object Object⭑ @namedobject from an intern on my team commented 3 days ago oh i just deleted the tests for now because they weren't passing for some reason
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  • 20
    Finally... The GitHub bathroom
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    When you force your computer to shut down How it is: How it feels:
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    Code that I finish at 4AM The code when I read it at 10 AM
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    kenneth @kennethnym yeah it's called programming kitze @thekitze - Jan 21 Follow it's 2025. blows my mind there are devs out there rawdogging code manually without *any* Ilm support. no cursor, no composer, no chat, no copilot, not even chatgpt 12:40 AM - Jan 22, 2025 -1.8M Views 215 4.4K 71K 2.6K I
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    thatcorporatelawyer ⚫ 5h Me mentally preparing for the task I'm about to be burdened with after being sent a "hey" on Teams: LIVE
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    customer is complaining that app is slow ok i have optimised the code to improve performance by 200% imgflip.com great now we can add more features
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