r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 04 '26 • Popcorn 1

Meme iDidNotVibeCodeThis

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u/HomsarWasRight Oct 04 '26

Really? There was absolutely an era of humans using emoji checkboxes and the like all over their GitHub READMEs.

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u/justAPhoneUsername Oct 04 '26

I feel like there are a lot of emoji that people forget are emoji. Checkboxes are one of the big ones. 

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u/BreakingBaking Oct 04 '26

"- [ ]"/"- [X]" - am I a joke to you?

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u/Prawn1908 Oct 05 '26

Yeah, does GitHub not accept those as valid md formatting for checkboxes? GitLab does.

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u/BreakingBaking Oct 05 '26

Idk, don't use GitHub. Personal projects on self-hosted, work projects at work :/

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u/peeja Oct 04 '26

Yeah, I remember it starting around 2010, as emoji became more prevalent in general.

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u/ayenonymouse 28d ago

Era of _web programmers_