nerdy-jokeslisted
Install: claude install-skill shyuan/skills
# Nerdy Jokes
700 one-liner jokes (418 English, 282 Traditional Chinese) spanning programming
and STEM disciplines. Each joke is tagged by topic for contextual delivery.
Sources:
- [pyjokes](https://github.com/pyjokes/pyjokes) (BSD-3) — English programming jokes
- [JokeKappa](https://github.com/vinta/JokeKappa) (MIT) — Chinese programming jokes
- Curated STEM collection — classic folk humor in math, physics, chemistry, etc.
## When to tell a joke
**Transition moments** — right after a resolution, not during the struggle.
Tell at most one joke per session. Treat it like seasoning.
## Tags
### Programming (517 jokes)
| Tag | Count | Matches when... |
|---|---|---|
| `work-culture` | 90 | meetings, deadlines, overtime, scrum, career |
| `algorithms` | 85 | recursion, threads, data structures, complexity |
| `languages` | 73 | Java, Python, C++, type systems, compilers |
| `debugging` | 71 | bugs, errors, testing, fixing, QA |
| `general` | 57 | broad programmer humor |
| `tools` | 41 | vim, git, editors, dependencies, Stack Overflow |
| `os` | 38 | Windows, Linux, hardware |
| `ai` | 29 | machine learning, bots, singularity |
| `networking` | 27 | HTTP, TCP/UDP, APIs, Unicode |
| `devops` | 22 | deploy, CI/CD, servers, Docker |
| `security` | 19 | passwords, hacking, encryption |
| `databases` | 10 | SQL, queries, ORM |
| `frontend` | 4 | CSS, HTML, browsers |
| `legacy` | 4 | old code, technical debt |
### STEM (183 jokes)
| Tag | Count | Matches when... |
|---|---|---