Gifts for Programmers
For coders, software engineers and the person who fixes everyone's laptop at Christmas. Tees and sweatshirts with jokes that compile on the first try.
Programmers are hard to shop for. Their tools are free, their hardware is very specific, and they have strong opinions about all of it. What they rarely buy for themselves is a shirt that gets the joke, set in the same clean type they stare at all day, and that is exactly the gap a good present fills.
Every pick in these gifts for programmers is a design developers actually buy from us. It works just as well as a gift for coders, software engineers and anyone in IT, and it's part of our wider geek gifts guide.
For the one who has fixed one bug and found twelve
For the developer whose most-used phrase is "that should work".
99 little bugs in the code
Take one down, patch it around, 129 little bugs in the code. Every programmer has lived this song, usually at about 2am, and the retro space invaders make it look far more fun than it was.
One of our longest-running coding best sellers.
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The !false sweatshirt
Three characters, one logic joke: not false, so it's funny because it's true. Coders get it before they finish reading it. On a heavyweight crewneck it covers stand-ups, long builds and cold server rooms through the whole winter.
Shop the !false SweatshirtDebugging, defined
A dictionary entry for the word, with the most accurate definition ever written: being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. Every developer reads it twice, then nods slowly.
For anyone whose commit history tells a story.
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For the one who remembers dial-up
For the developer who learned on a floppy disk and still tells you about it.
I am your father
A floppy disk looks down at a USB stick and delivers the most famous line in film. Anyone who saved their homework on a 3.5 inch disk gets it instantly.
A favourite with developers of a certain vintage, and their kids.
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Dad-A-Base
A retro sunset and a pun that every developer dad has made at least once: the place where all the bad jokes are stored. It's our best-selling gift for programmers who are also parents, and for the kids buying for them.
Shop Dad-A-BaseFour million years of progress
The classic march of human evolution, from knuckle-walking ape to upright human, ending exactly where you'd expect: hunched over a desk at a computer. Every developer recognises the posture.
One of our fastest-rising coding designs.
Shop Evolution To Coders
For the family's unpaid IT department
I'm my family's unpaid tech support. If you have ever been handed a parent's phone at a birthday party, you already know who this is for.
It lands perfectly on the programmer who resets the router at every visit, and works as a gentle thank you from the people who keep asking for help.
Shop Unpaid Tech SupportFour more coding favourites
Four mugs for the morning stand‑up
Free shipping on any 3 items
Mix tees and sweatshirts across any designs. The discount applies automatically at checkout, so the whole dev team ships for free.
Not sure of their size?
Everything is unisex. Our size charts list chest and length for every size, so you can measure a shirt they already own and compare.