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When the dev community demands yet another 'programmers are roosters' meme
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When the dev community demands yet another 'programmers are roosters' meme

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The image uses the classic two-panel “Babe, it’s time for your X” Wojak template. On the left, a cartoon woman with long brown hair and a bright red turtleneck clasps her hands together; beneath her is the caption: “Babe! It’s 4:20 it’s time for your another ‘Programmers are roosters’ meme.” On the right, a monochrome sketched Wojak head answers with bold text: “Yes honey.” The meme satirizes how developer circles relentlessly recycle overly specific inside jokes - here, the absurd idea that programmers are analogous to roosters - highlighting meme fatigue and self-referential humor within engineering communities. Visually simple with high-contrast text, it relies on viewers’ familiarity with both the template and niche programming jokes for its punchline

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The “programmers are roosters” meme is just a legacy cron job: fires at 4:20, wakes everyone up, nobody remembers why it’s there, and every senior dev is terrified to comment it out in case prod stops crowing
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The “programmers are roosters” meme is just a legacy cron job: fires at 4:20, wakes everyone up, nobody remembers why it’s there, and every senior dev is terrified to comment it out in case prod stops crowing

  2. Anonymous

    After 20 years in the industry, you realize the real recursion isn't in your code - it's the infinite loop of junior devs discovering the same 'programmers wake up early like roosters' joke and thinking they've struck comedy gold

  3. Anonymous

    The real reason we call it 'production support' is because it's the only job where 4:20 AM is both a wake-up call and a lifestyle choice. At least roosters get to crow about their schedule - we just get to explain to our partners why Kubernetes decided 4 AM was the perfect time to test our disaster recovery procedures. Again

  4. Anonymous

    Babel: letting rooster-devs crow modern JS in IE6 dialects at 4:20 AM

  5. Anonymous

    If your community’s content pipeline is cron(20 4 * * *), redeploying the same ‘programmers are roosters’ artifact, it’s time to add a Bloom‑filter dedupe and a ‘no‑poultry’ feature flag

  6. Anonymous

    The 4:20 daily “programmers are roosters” meme is basically our incident drill: a cron that crows, the team auto-ACKs “Yes honey,” and management calls it observability

  7. @NekoRynn 3y

    7:20 for me actually

  8. @nagatsuka_shuuya 3y

    10:20 for me actually

  9. @grinya_a 3y

    3:20 for me actually

  10. @NevermindExpress 3y

    8:20 for me actually

  11. @phpzapecanus 3y

    6:20 for me actually

  12. @AlexMZuev 3y

    Now we know admin's tz

  13. @sylfn 3y

    wow its 4:20

    1. @callofvoid0 3y

      you are in the middle of atlantic

      1. @sylfn 3y

        i am in Moscow :(

        1. @callofvoid0 3y

          when you sent that picture it was 11:32 here

          1. @callofvoid0 3y

            7 hour difference with my calculations is 105 degrees of earth

            1. @callofvoid0 3y

              that leads to near florida

          2. P S 3y

            Are there TZs which dont have full hour derivations? BC for me it was 10:02

            1. @callofvoid0 3y

              yep

            2. @callofvoid0 3y

              +3:30 in our implementation

  14. @callofvoid0 3y

    It' 4:50 for me

  15. P S 3y

    Wow didnt know that... Another reason to not implement time yourself

    1. dev_meme 3y

      https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca

      1. @RiedleroD 3y

        > Months have either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days. …do they not? Is there month with 27 or 32 days?

        1. dev_meme 3y

          Yes

        2. dev_meme 3y

          Both

        3. @sylfn 3y

          in soviet russia one February was only 14 days (because of calendar change from Julian to Gregorian)

          1. @RiedleroD 3y

            that doesn't count

            1. @RiedleroD 3y

              because I say so

              1. @sylfn 3y

                lmao

              2. dev_meme 3y

                Sounds fair

    2. dev_meme 3y

      Eg days with more than 24 hours 👀

      1. @sylfn 3y

        to indicate hours after midnight 28:00 is "4:00 next day"

        1. @callofvoid0 3y

          so they use a quantum timestamp

  16. P S 3y

    Would not say ots of after looking it up, but I guess, as India has one, it is population wise a not so small part...

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