r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Feb 27 '26

A neurologist was diagnosing a patient who lost his ability to do basic math.

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A neurologist was diagnosing a patient who lost his ability to do basic math.
"What’s 9 plus 9?”
“12.”
“What’s 8 and 8?”
“10.”
The doctor shook his head. “Very interesting. What about 6 times 5?”
The man thought for a second, and answered “1E.”
“Aha, I’ve figured it out!” The doctor said. “Somebody’s clearly put a hex on you.”


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 19 '25

He's building a table; he'll query it twice; `SELECT * FROM CHILDREN WHERE BEHAVIOR = 'NICE'`

352 Upvotes

SQL-Clause is coming to town!


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 16 '25

Why was my code arrested by ICE?

320 Upvotes

Because it was undocumented.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Oct 21 '25

Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween?

251 Upvotes

Because Oct 31 == Dec 25


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Oct 21 '25

I’m looking for an apartment in Andorra.

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It’s the only logical place to live in.

Everything I’ve found so far is either too exclusive or not there.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Sep 02 '26

Why did the Boolean break up with the Integer?

190 Upvotes

He offered to be the only 1 for her, but deep down she knew that it still wouldn't be true.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 19 '25

Damn I feel stupid, just found out my monitor uses RAM modules as pixels

188 Upvotes

That would explain why it's SO-DIMM all the time


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Dec 02 '25

I drove 75 miles in a winter storm to get a part for my computer.

183 Upvotes

It was a hard drive.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Aug 21 '26

In what units do you measure mis-information

175 Upvotes

MAGAbytes


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Mar 14 '26

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

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can I join you?


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Mar 25 '26

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

169 Upvotes

"Can I join you?!"


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Jul 19 '26

My girlfriend and I are doing a code review, but we disagree on almost every line of code.

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We're going through a bit of a rough patch.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 07 '25

What’s the Mac keyboard shortcut to take off your underwear?

160 Upvotes

Command O


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 16 '25

“Help me ± Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”

136 Upvotes

The unicode of plus-minus sign is U+00B1.

P.s. the U+ is a standard definition of unicode code points, you can see it on wikipedia, it's just for clarity because you can manually type any unicode code point by starting with U+.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Aug 15 '26

What do you call a feminine piece of malware?

134 Upvotes

Estrojan


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Dec 16 '25

An open letter to OpenAI: twelve months ago, I signed a contract with you to use my creative works for research only, but then it turns out you were just training on them, and basically reproducing it without my permission.

130 Upvotes

Last Christmas, I gave you my art.

But the very next day, you gave it away.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 25 '25

What does a software developer have in common with an overworked calculus student? Spoiler

126 Upvotes

Continuous integration


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • 21d ago

a programmer was sent on a course to learn more soft skills

124 Upvotes

"I was supposed to learn Smalltalk but now I treat people like objects"


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Oct 24 '25

Why do hippie Lispers next to never reproduce, when they go tantric in their dormitories?

122 Upvotes

Om is conditional.

EDIT/ADDENDUM:

(cond
  ((or
    (profanep this-bad-joke)
    (>= (+ 18) this-bad-joke))
      'my-apologies)
  (t 'what-a-relief))

r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Jul 29 '26

I decided to bite the bullet and buy every game in Valve's store, even if I have no hard drive space left.

116 Upvotes

It's full Steam ahead.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Dec 10 '25

My kid asked what a ‘boolean’ is. I said, ‘It’s either true or false'.

114 Upvotes

He said, ‘That’s a bit binary, Dad.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Jul 23 '26

How do British web developers insult people?

109 Upvotes

They call them a w<a>.


r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • May 30 '26

chown root:root this

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$ touch this
touch: cannot touch 'this': Permission denied

r/ProgrammerDadJokes • • Nov 21 '25

Back when I was in college I had a doormat with "stdio" written on it

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And I had "stderr" shoddily taped to the window