this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026

731 points (99.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

30157 readers

618 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

731

Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow (feddit.org)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by bricked@feddit.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

76 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

I did this once, but just had holes instead of unlit candles. I only had like 3 or 4 of them, and nobody's got time to go buy candles when everyone's about to sing happy birthday.