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wesbos/dad-jokes
dad jokes
A collection of programming-themed dad jokes maintained by Wes Bos, accepting community submissions via PR. It is exactly what it says: a markdown file full of groan-worthy puns for developers who want to inflict pain on their coworkers at standup.
The joke quality is actually solid for the genre — the async knock-knock joke, the UDP one, and 'I have a DRY sense of humor' land better than most. Community-sourced via PRs with a real human filter (Wes merges only if it makes him laugh) keeps the bar above pure noise. No dependencies, no build step, no configuration — it is a markdown file you can read in 10 minutes.
There is no machine-readable format (JSON, CSV) so you cannot use this as a data source without parsing markdown. No categories or tags, so finding jokes by topic (git, databases, React) requires a text search. The repo has had no structural changes in years — it is a flat file with no tooling around it. Some jokes are duplicated in spirit if not in wording.