September 13. Day 256 of the year, on a leap year — the one date that lines up with the number of values a byte can hold. That's the whole joke behind Programmers Day, and somehow it's stuck since 2009.

So, appreciation post: for everyone who's spent a night chasing a semicolon, a null that shouldn't be null, or a merge conflict that made no sense until it suddenly did — happy Programmers Day.

— Ashura