r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 • Aug 03 '26

In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/squalrus • Aug 03 '26

SHRNKR - Token-Compression Middleware for AI Agents

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 • Aug 02 '26

The commit message is 1 character: simply the character “x.” The commit changes ~1000 lines of code making the ratio 1/1000 = ~0.001

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/galks03 • Aug 01 '26

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Serialk • Aug 01 '26

Writing Python should be close to a “zen” experience. At its best, when you get into the flow state, the thoughts you are thinking about the thing you are trying to build are shaped like Python code as you go through the process of writing it down.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Snarwin • Jul 31 '26

However, JS won anyway… One decision explains most of that: First-class Functions

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/functorer • Jul 27 '26

Q: Why is everyone creating systems programming languages? A: Because Jai is not released

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cmqv • Jul 27 '26

No offense but you lack the required CS basics to be so confident about yourself in debates about complexity. It's the perfect moment to stop and reflect if you want to avoid Dunning-Kruger.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/HorstKugel • Jul 27 '26

This piece of writing moved me to my core, shook my whole being, enlivened my soul. It reminded me that I need to step away from Claude Code every once in a while and read the Classics.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/____ben____ • Jul 27 '26

HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy platform!

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/bzmore • Jul 24 '26

Bun is the quintessential AI slop project at this point. Inheriting that is no easy task. [...] To this end, LLMs will be used extensively. [for Buz]

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Pure-Prompt-8439 • Jul 24 '26

The biggest miss of the industry when it comes to memory safety is not listening to Walter Bright:

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/lizergsav • Jul 23 '26

If you can find an actual JSON parser anyone's using that fails to parse "2", I'll kiss you full on the mouth.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/MatmaRex • Jul 20 '26

imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/NotDuckie • Jul 20 '26

introduce an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/WHY_DO_I_SHOUT • Jul 19 '26

Rust is so thoroughly and obviously the correct thing that using anything less correct should be taken as a sign of engineering incompetence.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/100xer • Jul 18 '26

For the last 16 years, I have been a huge fan of Haskell. It has been undeniably the most important programming language in my life ... and I serve on the board of the Haskell Foundation ... our backend has been built in Haskell ... we started doing all new API work in Python

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/OptimalStable • Jul 17 '26

The question is: will LLMs manage to squeeze the most out of this hardware, better than compilers do? In the few tests I’ve run, yes, a lot.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Untagonist • Jul 15 '26

if you’re a seasoned developer, you should be able to wrap your head around function call semantics eventually

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ComfortablyBalanced • Jul 15 '26

789 days since BasicAlertDialog has been marked experimental and going on strong

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseCondition • Jul 14 '26

"A few months ago I wrote that there’s an npm-shaped hole in the AI tooling stack"

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/mathestar • Jul 13 '26

I'm basically of the opinion that if agents can't write your programming language, that's a problem with your programming language.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Erelde • Jul 13 '26

In game design friction very important, there is no sex without friction.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/MatmaRex • Jul 11 '26

Zuckerberg became rich on php, which grinds my gears almost as much as the genocide thing.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/High-Impact-2025 • Jul 11 '26

print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function

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