Grandpa's Bad Code Advice

SON, YOU CAN'T SPEND ALL DAY PLAYING VIDEOGAMES WHAT WOULD YOUR GRANDPA SAY? WRITE YOUR CODE WITH BAD VARIABLE NAMES, IF ONLY YOU CAN READ, YOU CAN'T BE FIRED HEH

A four-panel black-and-white cartoon shows an anime-style woman scolding a small child for playing video games. When asked what his grandpa would say, the child imagines advice to write code with terrible variable names so only he can understand it and cannot be fired. The joke is a programmer's cynical strategy for job security.

• @dev_meme / 2124 2020-10-06