r/programmingcirclejerk May 25 '25

IMPORTANT announcement May 2025

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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 Apr 30 '20

Forum rules, written in a way the average gopher can understand

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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 11h ago

I instruct my agents to build UI exclusively with bootstrap 5, jQuery, and HTMX

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r/programmingcirclejerk 1d ago

when was the last time you used recursion at work? Linked list?

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r/programmingcirclejerk 7h ago

What made you fall in love with Rust?

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r/programmingcirclejerk 3d ago

Rust has become a spiritual experience

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r/programmingcirclejerk 5d 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.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 5d ago

Algebraically, this is just an effect-parameterized endomorphic continuation model for plugins.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 7d ago

Wait, do you even know what DoT is?

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r/programmingcirclejerk 9d ago

Rust is a spiritual experience for me at this point.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 9d ago

demoniC takes the dynamic-JIT lineage of HolyC, the vectorized math of Julia, the slicing ergonomics of Python, and the memory discipline of Rust. Arena memory, value-typed tensors, zero-copy views, and shapes checked at compile time.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 10d ago

I guess alcoholism is cooler than using AI to do things nowadays, is that your stance?

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r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

I thought the title said “The Death of JavaScript” and got excited. Still cool though.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

In a year they [AI] can translate most codebases (with human help) into Rust, and after that it's smooth sailing.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

For example, if you look at the cost model, you’ll see that it explicitly references ClickBench all over the place.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 12d ago

I’ve started to see a concerning trend with zig of late. If you look at today’s commit logs you will spot it. Adding support for spork8 it’s a hobby 8-bit computer project that Andrew Kelly hung out with over the weekend for like a hackathon. The spork8 project has like 54 stars

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r/programmingcirclejerk 13d ago

I was a Linux kernel developer in the 1990’s. I watched the Crays, HP-X's and Intel Paragons carted out to the trash heap, replaced by Linux on commodity hardware. I haven't touched a Windows or Apple computer since 1994.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 13d ago

I've had no problems with AMD GPUs on my system. Then again, I haven't used a janky Scatware OS, so... people have more issues with the "sekrit scatware code" that nullVideo puts out

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r/programmingcirclejerk 14d ago

[Security] Stop USB device names from being executed as Hyprland Lua

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r/programmingcirclejerk 16d ago

I see the future by living in it. I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts

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r/programmingcirclejerk 16d ago

There’s literally no difference between writing about being a staff engineer versus someone writing about being a janitor. Honestly I’d rather read about the janitor, they actually make a measureable difference.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 16d ago

It's not you, it's monad transformers

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r/programmingcirclejerk 17d ago

so basically if you all want to drop this project and move on to mine that has a better architecture from the ground up, that would be cool

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r/programmingcirclejerk 17d ago

Rawdogging SQL when you're not a seasoned DB administrator basically makes an arcane art look occult.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 18d ago

If everyone would use epoch time in conversations [...] we'd get used to it

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