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This week’s featured cartoon:
“The sprint planning where the Jira board crashes but everyone pretends it’s fine.”
+ A 3-line story explaining the joke for your non-dev friends.
Your weekly debug log for work stress
Short, sharp humor that fits between builds, deploys, and yet another “quick” Zoom.
Original tech cartoons
Hand-drawn panels about real dev life: broken builds, feature creep, heroic hotfixes, and the eternal battle with legacy code.
Micro-stories & punchy one-liners
60-second reads inspired by real standups, incident postmortems, and that one coworker who says “quick question” and means 45 minutes.
Screenshot-worthy moments
Panels and punchlines you can drop in team Slack, engineering newsletters, and onboarding decks to prove we do have a sense of humor.
Peek inside the inbox
Here’s how a typical TechLaffs issue lands in your inbox.
Panel 1: Standup. PM says, “No deploys today, big demo tomorrow.” Dev team nods.
Panel 2: Someone quietly runs git push origin main.
Panel 3: PagerDuty lights up. Caption: “We found the real bottleneck: self-control.”
By the time we stabilized the outage, we had 27 tabs open, 19 theories, and 0 idea where the fix actually happened.
We celebrated by writing a 2,000-word Confluence doc that nobody will ever read again.
Because your brain deserves better than doomscrolling
TechLaffs is written by people who’ve actually shipped production code, triaged incident channels, and lived inside Jira. These aren’t recycled Twitter memes — they’re battle-tested punchlines from the trenches.
- Written for engineers, PMs, designers, DevOps, and data folks.
- Designed to be read in the time it takes a build to finish.
- Clean enough for work. Sharp enough to share with your team.
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— Priya, Director of Engineering, SaaS startup (200+ devs)
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Yes. The core newsletter with cartoons and stories is completely free. In the future we may offer optional paid collections and team licenses, but the weekly laugh drop stays free.
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