We’re fortunate to live in an era with computers. Without them, it doesn’t even bear thinking about how many different tasks would be a hundred times more challenging. Despite the occasional frustrations, it makes perfect sense that a tremendous amount of time, effort, and money is dedicated to maintaining all these complex systems that we have come to rely upon in the modern world. Programmers play a crucial role in this, and they are all too familiar with the frustrations of making code work when it seems to want to do anything but. It’s no surprise, then, that many coders, whether professional or hobbyists, turn to programming memes to express the struggles that they can get into. From workplace issues to stubborn machines, there’s plenty to joke about. While there are successes worth celebrating, the negative aspects are often more relatable—just be careful not to let them overshadow everything else.