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12 jokes

Programming humour is inside baseball, and that is exactly why it lands so hard with the right crowd. Off-by-one errors, merge conflicts, regular expressions and the eternal promise that it works on my machine — these are shared traumas, and shared trauma is the shortest route to a laugh.

The jokes below assume you have shipped something on a Friday. They work in standups, in pull request descriptions, and on conference slides where the projector has already failed once.

🇬🇧 EN#t1

Why do programmers prefer dark mode?

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🇬🇧 EN#t2

There are 10 kinds of people in the world:

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🇬🇧 EN#t3

Why did the developer go broke?

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🇬🇧 EN#t4

How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

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🇩🇰 DA#t5

Hvorfor er programmører altid forvirrede omkring Halloween og jul?

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🇬🇧 EN#t6

Why do Java developers wear glasses?

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🇬🇧 EN#t7

A SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks:

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🇬🇧 EN#t8

I'd tell you a UDP joke,

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🇬🇧 EN#t9

There's no place like 127.0.0.1.

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🇬🇧 EN#t10

Why did the function return early?

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🇬🇧 EN#t11

How do you comfort a JavaScript bug?

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🇩🇰 DA#t12

Hvorfor blev udvikleren fyret fra bageriet?

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need to code to get these jokes?
Most of them, yes. A handful work on pure logic, but the payoff is much bigger if you have argued with a compiler at least once.
Are these safe to share at work?
Yes. The tech category is kept clean so it can go straight into a team channel without a second thought.