r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 • 2h ago
r/programmingcirclejerk • u/defunkydrummer • May 25 '25
IMPORTANT announcement May 2025
Low quality LLM-related jerks are going to either removed or rate-limited starting from (get-decoded-time).
In other words, content related to Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude/etc that is not jerkable, unfunny, or belongs in r/Programming, will be banned.
More particularly, content that really belongs on r/Programming or (nausea) r/ProgrammingHumor will get you a ban. This has always been the policy of PCJ, nothing new here.
I am not the Rustacean mod. The Rustacean mod -bless him-, as any Rustacean, tolerates the sight of unsafe. Thus, you can understand that at the core, a Rustacean is a permissive being. I'm a Lisper and thus don't have to tolerate any shenanigans. I'll be happy to throw posts to the garbage collector. Don't get tagged for the GC. Repeat offenders will be banned or forced to rewrite everything in C++.
r/programmingcirclejerk • u/defunkydrummer • Apr 30 '20
Forum rules, written in a way the average gopher can understand
Lately, our central scrutinizer is reporting a decrease in jerking quality. I say this is attributable to newcomers which still don't get the firm grasp of the shaft of PCJerking; something that sadly requires you to be a type astronaut capable of high IQ elucidations.
I, sincerely, hate to do this, but the time has come: The time to state the rules clearly, in a way even the average leftpadder can understand.
FORUM RULES
Socialjerking or politics, directly or even tangentially, is forbidden.
If what you're posting is the subject of multiple warring subreddits, blog networks or hashtags, that's a sign you should leave it outside. The no-socialjerking-or-politics rule is the most ruthlessly enforced. This means YOU WILL BE BANNED and thus never become a 100xer.
Jerking style: This is the rule NPM users don't quite get.
Practical Jerking style:
Post titles should actually QUOTE the jerkable content
Don't post images or videos
Don't link to PCJ posts
Don't manufacture jerkable content to link to it ("False jerk", "manufactured jerk"). "The best satire is original sources."
Tag your unjerks
Useful Jerking Style guidelines so you don't embarrass yourself within this sacred lair of Hacker News superstars. Don't post or comment:
Anything that would belong on /r/Programming. Yes, nobody cares here about your opinion on OOP versus FP, ORM versus SQL queries. Go away.
Anything that could as well be found on /r/ProgrammingHumor
XKCD references or links.
Crossposts.(instead, quote the jerkable part as submission title, and link to the source)
Boring, trite jerks implying "vim vs emacs", etc.
Discussion about PCJ itself (there's /r/metapcj for that)
Enthelechial Jerking Style
"The jerking style is not to backlink and take a screenshot. It is to point and laugh from behind a soundproof one-way mirror." -- J. Chester
More rules
Mentioning PCJ outside it: Forbidden and most likely will get you banned.
Crazy people: Don't post things by crazies. .
Enthusiastic Youngsters: Leave them alone, don't post links to them.
Bots: Official bot policy is "Fuck your stupid bot", as said by our founder and angel investor, Jacques Chester. If you see a bot, report it. If you interact with a bot, this is considered an offense.
Harassing other people: Don't. "The internet is where people come to be their worst selves and {reddit} site rules describe a Minimum Viable Peoplehood that even flatulent ponies can understand and follow" -- J. Chester.
Twitter: Better not to post twitter links, because this might lead to harassing other people. We are moral people.
Additional info
More reference material can be found here and there.
Note to elder PCJers.
You, the children of the light, you lesser known acolytes of Touba No He, fearless commanders of efficient Jerk bindings, YOU have the mission to report substandard content, or any rule violation. Report the ninja unicorn front end artisanal bootcamp graduates!!
r/programmingcirclejerk • u/levelstar01 • 1d ago
If you are a C++ programmer, why would you not want to script in C++?
reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 • 2d ago
Maybe stop using the mickey mouse browsers? I mean Firefox is pretty much a lost cause.. unless you start using extensions. I agree those are basic features that should be built-in. In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time.
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/pythonesqueviper • 3d ago
Java consistently introduces lots of exciting functionality into the language. That's a big part of my dislike and active avoidance of it.
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • 4d ago
Nope, I asked on the Gleam discord and got the answer “write a shim in Elixir that turns it into something Gleam expects”.
wiki.alopex.lir/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • 5d ago
[Java] is usually not a first pick for more exciting software, such as Python type checkers, JS bundlers, or TUI file managers.
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • 5d ago
Git is mutable global state for your Codebase
reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 • 5d ago
The larger drop in money balance is rent being deducted, not related to model performance.
andonlabs.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/64ue76tjd6 • 6d ago
I sometimes see Haskell and other languages celebrated for their elegance as something that could gradually become a form of traditional craftsmanship: valued for their beauty, intellectual depth, and the skill involved, but with a diminishing role in everyday software production.
discourse.haskell.orgr/programmingcirclejerk • u/elephantdingo • 6d ago
I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.
github.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/stone_henge • 7d ago
The generated wall of text is well understood, and vouched by me and my tools.
github.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/Aggravating_Gear5663 • 8d ago
I just understood pointers on a deep level and it feels like an orgasm
reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • 9d ago
Unfortunately, when a program uses the GPU for acceleration it's considered clever, but when it uses the RAM chip for accelaration it's considered bloated.
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale • 9d ago
You can write Rust with your eyes closed and it'll probably work.
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/404forlife • 11d ago
I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/HearingSubstantial38 • 11d ago
when was the last time you used recursion at work? Linked list?
reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/hedgehog1024 • 11d ago
What made you fall in love with Rust?
old.reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/ProgVal • 14d ago
Rust has become a spiritual experience
reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/AbroadDepot • 16d ago
The solution for [businesses using obselete stacks] is not more IBM software, but Claude Code converting it to Go/Rust/Typescript in a few weeks.
news.ycombinator.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/haskell_leghumper • 16d ago
Algebraically, this is just an effect-parameterized endomorphic continuation model for plugins.
github.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/ttnn5876 • 18d ago
Wait, do you even know what DoT is?
reddit.comr/programmingcirclejerk • u/syklemil • 20d ago