Gift guides for developers
Buying for someone who writes code? These are picked by discipline and taste rather than whatever ranked highest — with a note on why each one lands.
- Gifts for backend developersBackend developer gift ideas — Node, Go, GraphQL, Ruby and PHP, chosen by someone who has actually run the thing in production.
- Gifts for a computer science studentGift ideas for a CS student — the languages they actually get taught, plus what to avoid buying someone still working out what they like.
- Gifts for DevOps and SRE engineersGift ideas for DevOps, SRE and platform engineers — Kubernetes, Helm, Serverless and the on-call humour that only lands if you have been paged.
- Gifts for front-end developersFront-end developer gift ideas chosen by someone who writes components — React, Vue and the tooling, without guessing wrong on the framework war.
- Gifts for Rust developersGift ideas for a Rust developer — Ferris the crab, the annual cRUSTmas pun, and why Rustaceans are unusually easy to buy for.
- Secret Santa gifts for developersSecret Santa ideas for a developer on a small budget — mugs, sticker sheets and socks that land without needing to know their tech stack.
- Stocking stuffers for codersSmall, cheap stocking fillers for developers — laptop stickers deep enough in the weeds to be worth recognising, from Flux to ReasonML.
- Gifts for programmersDeveloper gift ideas chosen by someone who writes code — what to buy when you know they program but not much else, and what to avoid entirely.