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101 of the Best Programming Memes on the Internet

by Astha Sharma on 2020-06-19

We compiled this list of the best programming memes we found across the internet! Sit back, relax, enjoy, and share with friends or coworkers.

Each meme has been credited to where we found it, however the origin for some may be different. If you would like to correct any of the sources, please email us info@apispreadsheets.com

  1. Which one are you?

    2. top panel is a man and women looking put together to represent people who use libraries. Bottom panel is two distraught people to present those who make libraries
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  2. As long as things look pretty, we don't have to talk about the back...

    3. Frontend code being clean vs backend is messy
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  3. Please don't

    4. tweet that says 'Am a developer, please dont ask me about Word, excel & all that nonsense... yes i can help but please dont' and the hand emoji
    Source: @caystard

  4. How I really learned how to code...

    5. 6 people are reaching to cut the cake. 5 of them touch it and they represent 'My friends','Stack overflow' 'pressening random buttons on my keboard' 'this subreddit' 'an Indian guy from YouTube' and the last hand isnt touching to represent school when learning how to code
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  5. I've been guilty of this too

    6. tweet that says'Passengers: Why is this airplane wifi so slow? The engineer in Seat 22D: rm -rf node_modules && npm install'
    Source: @kvlly

  6. So simple!

    7. Text that says 'The UI is quite simple, client will easily figure it out' and then a picture of the client holding their finger when the app says 'hold your finger'
    Source: cometchat

  7. This is a sign that you don't need to clean up

    8. my program:*works perfectly* me:*cleans up the code* also my program: meme of penguin sitting with arms crossed saying 'well now I am not doing it'
    Source: @caystard

  8. Junior vs Senior Developer

    9. both backgrounds are of a fire and chaos. The junior developer is stressed out while the senior developer is relaxing in the middle of the chaos
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  9. I was a different person two weeks ago

    10. Coming back to finish the code you started writing 2 weeks ago: picture of man with hand over mouth and his computer screen looks like hieroglyphics
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  10. Well, at least Dad tried..

    11. text exchange of a dad telling his son he refered him for building a website. Son asks 'What? How big is the website?' dad replies 'normal screen size'
    Source: @_TommyMason

  11. My top google search is "how to allign image center css"

    12. top says HTML and has girl on the right. Bottom says HTML+CSS and has the girl in the middle because its hard to align
    Source: remote.tools

  12. At least he doesn't bite!

    13. Dog doesnt bite but says 'understanding the programming memes doesn't make you a dev'
    Source: remote.tools

  13. They only care about JS

    14. linkedin recruiter asks java developer 'Are you interested in a postion as a javascript developer?'
    Source: cometchat

  14. Same thing, right?!

    15. Read the documentation? No, copy stackoverflow answers
    Source: cometchat

  15. Best alarm is panic

    16. Person is sleeping and their brain thinks 'Didnt you have something important in your clipboard?' that causes them to wake up
    Source: cometchat

  16. I never really know, I just do

    17. man with hand over mouth having no idea why code works and why it doesnt work
    Source: cometchat

  17. The things that keep me up

    18. tweet that says 'He couldnt sleep for 2 days because he missed her. I couldn't sleep for 4 days because I missed a stupid semicolon in my code'
    Source: cometchat

  18. No one to blame but myself

    19. Meme of Fred Jones from Scooby Doo taking mask off another man that is himself. 'Lets see who made this idiotic program 1 year ago'
    Source: cometchat

  19. Or trying to go through your search history from weeks ago

    20. Me thinking about the keyword I searched in google that took me to the right stack overflow page
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  20. Cute birdie wins

    21. Parrots and machine learning algorithm both: learn random phares, dont understand what they learn, occasionally speaks nonsense, but the parrot is a cute birdie
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  21. It's more satsifying.. even if it wastes time

    22. When there's a task that can be done manually in 10 minutes but you find a way to automate it in 10 days. 'Im gonna do what's called a programmer move'
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  22. How my mood can change from 0 to 100 real quick

    23. Top panel is distressed figure saying 'The world is a cruel and unjust place. THere is no harmony in the unvierse. The only constant is suffering' *minutes later* 'Oh i misspelled a variable'
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  23. 7 Hours Later

    24. When it's been 7 hours and you still can't understand your own code
    Source: Testbytes

  24. The difference between those into tech vs. IN tech

    25. People into tech are put together vs people who make tech are a mess
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  25. The typo is more important

    26. Code reviewers being scared of a typo in a comment but theres an obvious bug that will take down prod coming up
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  26. The difference is uncanny

    27. Left pannel is mickey mouse at Disney World and says Typescript type system and on the right it says Python type system and shows Mickey in a basement
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  27. When you finally find the asshole that invented timezones

    28. image of man going crazy and choking another man
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  28. Everyone needs a purpose

    29. npm's purpose is to instan yarn
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  29. Gotta catch it fast

    30. my program trying to load 0x000000 and the kernel rushing behind it
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  30. I have to go through the whole party without them knowing...

    31. meme of guy at party and says they dont know i have a github project with 4 stars
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  31. One day, just not today

    32. Older man saysing to his son one day you'll be a man. Son replying Dad I'm 32. Dad says But your developement workflow requires a mouse
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  32. How could they not tell me this...

    33. Boss didnt tell developer that the user specifications changed and he finished the project
    Source: DILBERT by Scott Adams

  33. Still life changing

    34. Girl saying 'thank you for changing my life' Vim has caption 'I'm literally just a text editor'
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  34. How it really looks

    35. JavaScript is an elphant, CSS is a penguin. Their combo is penguin with elephant head
    Source: Flatlogic

  35. Fullstack devs have themselves

    36. Frontend dev and backend dev meet in JSON. Fullstack developer shaking hand with itself
    Source: Flatlogic

  36. It gets stressful

    37. Baby saying Hold my beer, im going to learn a new javascript framework
    Source: Flatlogic

  37. Too much

    38. There are too many people, too much greed, too many problems, definetely too many javascript libraries
    Source: Flatlogic

  38. Just cleaning up my code

    39. When you clean up your code and all you are left with is Hello world
    Source: Flatlogic

  39. Vue >>

    40. Vue in the front with React, Angular, jQUery defeted
    Source: Flatlogic

  40. Need some consistency!

    41. Javascript is confusing ebcause 1 === 1, 1!==2
    Source: r/javascriptmemes

  41. Await, await, await

    42. Boss: could I see the asynchronous code that you wrote? Me (an intecllectual well versed in ES8):await,await,await
    Source: r/javascriptmemes

  42. Maybe they are the ones that need more experience

    43. I'm sorry, I dont think you have the expereince to work on our website. Meanwhile their website is a lot of errors
    Source: Ariana Milasincic

  43. C'mon JavaScript... always playing around

    44. Javascript array.sort() is a mess
    Source: Ariana Milasincic

  44. Suddenly I can't read

    45. Just because your langauge is widely used doesnt mean its any good. Bottom pannel:if those JS developers could read, theyd be very upset
    Source: Ariana Milasincic

  45. It really be like this

    46. in reality, a programmer googles how to do simple stuff all the time. While everyone else thinks they are high tech.
    Source: Ariana Milasincic

  46. Guilty

    47. Statrups looking at redis and saying 'is this a database?'
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  47. JavaScript summed up

    48. JS is confusing
    Source: freecodecamp

  48. Maybe that's why it takes me so long to code...

    49. Programmers think about things like what to eat or do instead of coding
    Source: DevHumor

  49. It can wait!

    50. The code is temp fixed until Monday
    Source: DevHumor

  50. Except when people read my code. It's completely easy to understand!

    51. Reading other people's code feels like going into a haunted house
    Source: DevHumor

  51. I really need to start doing this

    52. Programming pro tip: Code javascript underwater, so nobody could see you crying
    Source: DevHumor

  52. When they ask about the dress code

    53. Dress that has code on it
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  53. Two brains are better than one. Right?

    54. Dilbert comic of boss saying pair programming is great but both of them are talking about harmonicas
    Source: DILBERT by Scott Adams

  54. Not the same

    55. Tweet that says 'You're in his DMs, but I'm in his private GitHub repositroy we are not the same.'
    Source: @tweevtran

  55. You would think getting paid would be more motivating

    56. Writing entire projects was fun but 10 lines of code for work has you laying down
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  56. Start them young

    57. Top panel is book that says JS for babies. Bottom panel is Toby, Age 3 Alcoholic
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  57. Beware of the devs

    58. Developers beating up testers
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  58. The best tier list

    59. Tier list about asymmetric control terminology and S tier is Pimp/Ho, A is Dom/Sub, B is Scriptuer/Prophet, C is Boss/Consigliere, D is Controller/Controlled, E is Overlord/Minion, F is Master/Slave
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  59. Easy they say...

    60. Surface level Python is Beginner Friendly but when it gets deeper you have Machine Learning, Aritfical intelligence, Maths, Data mining
    Source: r/PythonMemes

  60. Need to learn the language deeply

    61. Teacher: The best way to learn a langauge is to speak with the natives. The guy learning Python:Charming an actual python snake
    Source: r/PythonMemes

  61. .py vs .js

    62. debugging.py has a big strong Doge but debugging .js is doge sitting sayings 'proggy no worky'
    Source: r/PythonMemes

  62. Got to look at the positives!

    63. 'Your code is without a doubt the worst I have ever run' 'But it does run!'
    Source: Code It Bro

  63. It's just a space :(

    64. Pythin is the easier language to learn. No brackets, no main. But you get errors for witing an extra space.
    Source: Code It Bro

  64. And then you ctrl+z and mess up more code

    65. When you delete a block of code that you thought was useless but its cartoon cutting off branch of tree he is sitting on
    Source: Code It Bro

  65. Haha, gotta start somewhere though.

    66. joke about how HTML is not a programming langauge
    Source: Flatlogic

  66. Don't know where these bugs keep coming from

    67. Manger:So theres was 3 bugs before you started and 4 after you fixed one of them? Bottom panel: It's an oversimplification of events, but yes'
    Source: Naina Chaturvedi

  67. Back in MY day

    68. Dilbert comic of how back in my day there werent icons and wrote an entire database using only zeros. But at least there were 0s, Dilbert had to use the letter O
    Source: DILBERT by Scott Adams

  68. If you don't have a mechnical keyboard, are you really a programmer?

    69. Explosion, plane taking off, and mechincal keyboard are the loudest sounds ever
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  69. Oh. My. God.

    70. Brain wakes you up by saying You commited the API keys to a public repo
    Source: Naina Chaturvedi

  70. Still love you though, StackOverflow

  71. Now THAT is impressive

    72. Worlds strongest man contest. Last guy says 'I don't use Google when coding'
    Source: Naina Chaturvedi

  72. If it works, it works!

    73. Half of the horse is drawn nicely and that is the parts copied from Stack Overflow. The rest of the horse looks like it was drawn by a child and that most of the code but it works.
    Source: Naina Chaturvedi

  73. I AM ROOT!!

    74. user$ rm somefile. rm:somefile: Permission denied. user$ sudoe rm somefile. Groot saying I AM ROOT!
    Source: Naina Chaturvedi

  74. The REAL Database

    75. Excel spreadsheet is the perfect and real database
    Source: Love Spreadsheets

  75. We all start somewhere

    76. Excel saying I rasied that boy to me doing some actual programming
    Source: Love Spreadsheets

  76. At least I'm popular somewhere

    77. As a programmer you get 0 notfications on FaceBook but so many on LinkedIn from recruiters
    Source: Pinterest

  77. I'm so smart

    78. Me: I am good in C lanauge. Interviwer: Then write 'Hello World' using C. Me: Hello World written with the letter C
    Source: Pinterest

  78. Always the odd one out

    79. Family photo where everyone looks normal and that represents Objective C, PHP, Lisp, Java, C, C#. But JavaScript is dressed in grunge being the odd one out
    Source: Pinterest

  79. Maybe THIS time it will work

    80. Getting errors compling and meanwhile in the complier they are recompling the same code over and over
    Source: Pinterest

  80. Sigh... now I have to deal with the REAL issue

    81. When you find the small bug when debugging but that leads to a real problem. Represented by a big monster/bug
    Source: CHEEZburger

  81. brb time to kms

    82. Meme of a kid crying and holding a gun and the title is 'When your IDE crashes, you didn't save shit and you have to kill the process'
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  82. C'mon man!

    83. Trump and Biden debate. Me:*declares a varilable x*, my IDE(Trump):field x is never used. Me: Will you shut up man
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  83. Don't mess with my bf

    84. Don't mess with me. My boyfriend is a programmer, he'll hack your world into oblivion. The boyfriend: googling how to declare variables in HTML
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  84. Big data is like teenage sex...

    85. Big data is like teenage sex, everyone talks about it. Nobody really knows how to do it. Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it. So, everyone claims they are doing it.
    Source: Naveen DA

  85. The worst feeling ever

    86. Tweet that says 'My biggest fear is that I'll one day run into a problem that hasn't been solved on StackOverflow and I'll ahve to restart my project with a different technology'
    Source: Naveen DA

  86. Virgin vs Chad

    87. Virign classic developer vs the chad linux dev meme
    Source: CHEEZburger

  87. Bye bye Baby

    88. Baby's first word is 'Arrays start at 1' and the next panel is Baby found in Dumpster
    Source: CHEEZburger

  88. Sometimes you need that extra reassurance

    89. Code comments be like: Stop sign and sign under that has this is a stop sign
    Source: The Coderpedia

  89. As long as it works

    90. Resturant's sign is 'Dolores Resturant' but the parts that the light are on is 'res' and 'taurant'. Caption is When your program's a mess but everything works out in the end
    Source: The Coderpedia

  90. The truth hurts

    91. Guy roasting interent explorer saying its slowest browser. IE replies saying still faster than your crush's reply
    Source: The Coderpedia

  91. bro... <3

    92. Java to semi colon having a romantic bro moment because that is my life withou you bro
    Source: The Coderpedia

  92. As long as it looks pretty

    93. Front end is represented by guy posing in front of airplane window. But backend shows that he took a toilet seat and put up the image on his laptop
    Source: The Coderpedia

  93. Copy & paste is the most important commands to know

    94. Stackvoerflow user trying to explain me what I did wrong. Me: Just give me a cody to copy/paste
    Source: The Coderpedia

  94. Oh, sureee it's done

    95. When you have to fix 3 pending bugs before leaving for the weeknd
    Source: Lokajit Tikayatray

  95. I wonder what my online footprint would say about me

    96. Dilbert made an app that evelautes cadinates based on their online footprint and describes a guy that has no friends, family or hobies and just codes all day and realizes he is taking about himself
    Source: DILBERT by Scott Adams

  96. A little poem

    97. Poem goes 99 little bugs in the code, take one down, patch it around, 127 little bugs in the code
    Source: Lokajit Tikayatray

  97. Thank you, StackOverflow

    98. Me writing great code but StackOverflow is supporting that
    Source: Lokajit Tikayatray

  98. You really wouldn't understand

    99. Dilbert spent 3 days setting up the programming environment and his coworker wouldnt understnad
    Source: DILBERT by Scott Adams

  99. It's okay to fail

    100. Junior Dev telling Senior Dev that he doesnt know what he did wrong. Senior dev saysing that sometimes you just fail
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor

  100. Still love you, Docker

    101. When you get a fast new computer but docker is using 80% of the system resocures
    Source: @sigsegmeme

  101. So accurate

    102. meme that features Fring from Breaking Bad. He is laughing while replying to posts in r/ProgrammerHumor but super serious when replying to questions in stackoverflow
    Source: r/ProgrammerHumor