The Joke:

Alright, here’s the TL;DR:

The original “Let my people go” was Moses telling Pharaoh to stop micromanaging and let the Israelites walk out of slavery. Fast forward a few thousand years, and developers everywhere are basically shouting the same thing—just swap Egypt for Jira and Pharaoh for That One Manager Who Writes Tickets Like Riddles.

“Let my people code.”
It’s the rallying cry of every developer who just wants uninterrupted time to ship features, refactor that one cursed function, and finally delete the console.log they’ve been ignoring for months. But instead?

Daily standups become weekly standoffs, your Slack is more active than your local dev server, and every time you get into flow, someone drops, “Quick question?” in your DMs.

So when we wish you a holiday “free of plagues and merge conflicts,” we’re not just referencing the ten classics (frogs, boils, locusts, etc.). We’re talking about:

Plague #1: Jenkins is down. Again.

Plague #4: You accidentally rebased instead of merged.

Plague #7: Someone force-pushed to main mid-seder.

Why It’s Funny:

For developers: It's a pitch-perfect blend of biblical narrative and workplace pain. The idea that Moses wanted freedom and you just want to be left alone to code? Deeply relatable.

For non-developers: Even if you don’t know what a merge conflict is, you definitely know what it feels like to be constantly interrupted when you're just trying to do your thing.

For everyone at the seder: It’s a clever way to connect ancient liberation with modern first-world dev problems—because sometimes freedom just means getting through the day without being added to a random “collaboration doc.”