14-year-old refuses to delete her fanfiction despite her parents’ insistence that it’ll look bad to future employers: ‘I’m a 40-year-old accountant who reads fanfiction on my phone during my lunch break. Employers don’t care.’

Writing bad fanfiction is a teenage rite of passage. This might be a controversial take, but I don’t think parents should be snooping through everything their kid does on their phone. There is definitely a time and a place for some parental controls on certain websites, but if a parent reads everything their teenager texts …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks

In just a few short years, the conversation has shifted from ‘learn to code’ to ‘technology can code for you’. It has never been easier or more difficult to be a programmer, depending on what your skillset is. Now, it seems like every other company is laying off its developers because of some wondrous AI …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks

To those who find themselves ready to take a gander at some programming memes: welcome.  Coders, programmers, and developers of all kinds, we want you to be here, whether you’re a seasoned professional who has seen it all or a helpless beginner still trying to figure out why your code won’t compile (that doesn’t always …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks

We have to give our respect to all those people out there who code, because they pretty much carry the whole of the modern world on their shoulders. All of these systems that we rely on every day and barely think about until they start going wrong exist because of the tireless work of those …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks

The world of coding is made up of many different kinds of people, ranging from newbies and casual hobbyists to the most esteemed and knowledgeable professionals. No matter where they happen to fall in the great big ranking of programmers, each with their own preferred programming languages, and strong opinions about how things should be …
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Manager expects employee to use her personal computer for work because the company’s laptops are slow: ‘Apparently, half my coworkers are using their own equipment because the company refuses to upgrade.’

It’s not her responsibility to supply work equipment.  It’s no fun to have to use your own personal money to buy things you need to do your job. Who among us hasn’t had to spend money on our own uniforms for a job, even though they were a requirement? Some might think buying a Burger …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks

There are positives and negatives to knowing how to code. On the one hand, it remains a solid way to make a living (even if it is a little less solid than before), and it comes with the quiet satisfaction of being able to understand how these computers that we rely on actually work. Programmers …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks

While we are getting to the point in the year when a lot of people will be taking a well-deserved break, that may not be the case for some of the more dedicated programmers out there. After all, the internet and every single computer in the world don’t just switch off because it’s Christmas. No …
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28-year-old employee teaches 50-year-old new hire how to use a computer; new hire cries to supervisor when employee doesn’t do her job for her: ‘The one moment I don’t help her the way she wanted me to, she had a meltdown.’

She is perfectly capable of doing the job; she wants her trainer to do it all for her. It can be terrifying to be hired for a job you’re not qualified for. A lot of people pad their resumes with skills that they haven’t actually mastered, and they panic when they’re tasked with using those …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (December 14, 2025)

To be a dedicated coder can come with some interesting advantages, and one of those is a natural head start when it comes to the world of memes. Those familiar with computers are far more likely than the average person to understand how this very online form of humor is made, seeing as it naturally …
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