Programming Quotes<p>If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.</p><p> — John Carmack</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
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earthling<p>We, Programmers A Chronicle of Coders from Ada to AI by Robert C. Martin, 2025</p><p>In We, Programmers, software legend Robert C. Martin—"Uncle Bob"—dives deep into the world of programming, exploring the lives of the groundbreaking pioneers who built the foundation of modern computing. From Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and Dennis Ritchie, Martin shines a light on the figures whose brilliance and perseverance changed the world.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
Programming Quotes<p>The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.</p><p> — Frederick P. Brooks</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
Gharr<p>💌 A message to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> — let’s make a 🆙 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/changer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>changer</span></a> for this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>platform</span></a>!</p><p>💌 AI Software Upgrade Suggestion:<br>✅ Let users follow any number of hashtags<br>✅ Add a clean dashboard to manage them 📊<br>✅ Use AI to suggest relevant hashtags + filter spam 🤖✨<br>✅ Make all of it optional & user-controlled 🔓🕊️</p><p>Let’s help good voices get heard! 🎤💬<br>Use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmers</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Save" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Save</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/costs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>costs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> 💋</p>
Gharr<p>💌 A message to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>, let's make a 🆙 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/changer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>changer</span></a> for this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>platform</span></a>! Here is my suggestion (love letter to you) that respects what you want to do: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gharrhome/114985541561863621" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@Gharrhome/114</span><span class="invisible">985541561863621</span></a> Use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmers</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Save" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Save</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/costs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>costs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> 💋</p>
Wokebloke for Democracy<p>This MIT study suggests to me that the race for AI is one against time. If it's accurate (This was a small sample with a larger study in the works.) the people using Ai (presumably including those working to build AI for Microsoft, Meta, etc.) are undergoing rapidly deteriorating brain function.<br>This also puts into question plans to use AI in schools.<br><a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">media.mit.edu/publications/you</span><span class="invisible">r-brain-on-chatgpt/</span></a><br><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmers</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Cognitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cognitive</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
amen zwa, esq.<p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> is an <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>. Like any art form, it utilises known technical concepts and processes; it requires the invention of new, unique concepts and processes; and it demands years of dedicated practice to become proficient.</p><p>As <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a>, we can accept the above assertion on the grounds of individual intuition and collective experience. We may then derive the following statements therefrom:</p><p>• Crafting a complete solution of a substantive, novel problem in STEM, ab initio et per definitionem, is like sculpting a masterpiece out of a large slab of Italian marble.</p><p>• Schlepping together a bunch of API calls to replicate a known solution, without a thorough understanding of the behaviours and the interactions of these functions, is like creating a 3D model, then feeding the model to a 3D printer.</p><p>• Copying and pasting code off some forum, without even reading the copied code, is like downloading someone else's 3D model, then feeding the model straight to a 3D printer.</p><p>• Begging an LLM to generate a piece of production-ready code, without bothering to read the generated code, is like asking someone who owns a 3D printer to print something—anything—based on a vague description of the model, then trying to auction at Sotheby's that printed model, as if it were a unique, valuable artefact.</p>
Programming Quotes<p>The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.</p><p> — Frederick P. Brooks</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
Programming Quotes<p>Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.</p><p> — Patrick McKenzie</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
Peter Czanik<p>Last weekend we had a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/teambuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teambuilding</span></a> event next to lake <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Balaton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Balaton</span></a>. Contrary to all forecasts, we had a beautiful weather. There were also <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a> with us, so a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rubberduck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rubberduck</span></a> was also enjoying the view 😉</p>
amen zwa, esq.<p>Types of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmers</span></a> in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CS</span></a> and <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a>:</p><p>• Theorist—seek new discoveries in computability theory, complexity theory, and type theory (Church, Turning, Kleene, Cook, etc.)<br>• Inventor—design, analyse, prove, and publish an original algorithm (Knuth, Dijkstra, Karp, Tarjan, etc.)<br>• Engineer—devise a correct, efficient implementation of a published algorithm (implementers of DSP, DIP, etc.)<br>• Translator—convert an algorithm's mathematical description directly into a programme (CS undergraduates)<br>• Cobbler—cobble together APIs into a programme that might, or might not, work (senior IT practitioners)<br>• Cutter—cut and paste existing bits of code into a programme that just might do something unexpected (mid-level IT practitioners)<br>• Cleaner—clean up senior team members' messy, buggy code, while leaving the existing bugs intact and adding a few new ones (junior IT practitioners)<br>• Generator—ask AI to write direct-to-production code that no IT practitioner in the team could be bothered to read (senior IT managers)</p>
Programming Quotes<p>Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people.</p><p> — Douglas Crockford</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
.:\dGh/:.<p>When I'm trying to assert something and it gives me failure.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cunKaj7ZxA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=3cunKaj7ZxA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>...and then I realise it was a typo on the code.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programmers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Code</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Developer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Developers</span></a></p>
Club de TéléMatique :verified:<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PROGRAMMERS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PROGRAMMERS</span></a> !!! now that I have your attention. Please read and heed: <a href="https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/false</span><span class="invisible">hoods-programmers-believe-about-names/</span></a> and <a href="https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-f</span><span class="invisible">alsehood</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a></p>
Ruckerworks<p>JOKE: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?</p><p>None, that's a hardware problem.</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>joke</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
Berkubernetus<p>Falsehoods <a href="https://m6n.io/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a> believe about <a href="https://m6n.io/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aviation</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flightaware.engineering/falseh</span><span class="invisible">oods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/</span></a></p><p>My favorite one:</p><p>"Nobody will ever set their flight identification to weird things like NULL"</p><p>(thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ascherbaum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ascherbaum</span></a></span>)</p>
Programming Quotes<p>Get out of the way of your developers or lose them to someone who will.</p><p> — Adrian Cockcroft</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p>As of this writing, IMHO this is decent preamble boilerplate for <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/perl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perl</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/programmers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programmers</a> who want to use most modern features while ensure compatibility with the Perl available via recent <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/unix" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unix</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> operating system distributions, including <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/macos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#macOS</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/wsl2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WSL2</a>:</p><pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env perl
use v5.34;
use warnings;
use experimental qw(isa signatures try);
</code></pre><p>Don’t be scared by <code>experimental</code>; those features were accepted into subsequent versions of Perl.</p><p>Season to taste. For example, your codebase might be using something like <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Try::Tiny" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Try::Tiny</a> for exception handling syntax, in which case you’d leave out <code>try</code>. Every one of those <code>use</code>s is lexically scoped, so you can adjust them per-file or per-code block too.</p>
Joaquim Homrighausen<p>So, apparently, some Linux distros, and library maintainers, are considering, or even in progress of, to drop support for 32-bit architectures? 🤔 Here's an honest, and quite restrained question: what shit-for-brains decision maker came up with that brainfart? 🥸</p><p>Are you worried about addressing space? CPU performance? Bus performance? Too many <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ifdefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ifdefs</span></a> ... What? Let's hear the golden arguments for this clever line of thinking?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/32bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>32bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/64bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>64bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
Programming Quotes<p>The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.</p><p> — Frederick P. Brooks</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmers</span></a></p>
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