Recently @ThePracticalDev asked people on Twitter for typical things programmers say:

Request — what are some examples of funny idioms/phrases software devs use a lot? Things like "It works on my machine" etc. — The Practical Dev (@ThePracticalDev) November 16, 2016

There were a lot of great answers. Here are my favorites:

Phrases

It works on my machine.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

How hard can it be?

How did that even work in the first place?

I don’t see anything in the logs.

I’m guessing it’s an issue on their side.

Probably some kind of permissions issue.

That’s weird.

That’s a known issue.

We don’t support that.

No, I don’t know how long it’s going to take.

Actually, it has always been like that.

Have you tried it with Chrome or Firefox?

It should work now.

But that’s not how you told me it should work.

Well there’s your problem right there.

Working as intended.

I mean, everything’s *possible*…

That will never happen.

Shouldn’t take too long.

Cheap, fast, high quality. Pick any two.

It’s 90% done.

This is just a temporary fix

You’re doing it wrong

That’s a code smell.

I thought we fixed this!

Yes, but does it scale?

Words and Expressions

There were also individual words or expressions:

Foobar

Grok

Rabbit hole

Turtles all the way down

Yak shaving

Bikeshedding

Automagically

Performant

+1

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Sites

There were also several sites mentioned:

PS. If you don’t follow @ThePracticalDev you should – lots of good tweets!