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[โ€“] Panties@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand this on so many levels...

[โ€“] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

It started as a joke about trans/cross dressing coders claiming that their feminine knee high socks were "programming socks" to assist in coding when found by roommates and then somehow it became the idea that all of this stuff was necessary for programming