7 unique gifts for a programmer [2021 edition]

Tom Smykowski
5 min readOct 17, 2021

A holiday season is coming faster than ever before. And you may wonder what gift to buy for a programmer. It may be your husband, wife, friend, colleague, son or daughter. Maybe you want to surprise them with a specific gift, or make them interested in programming. Whatever reason you have, this is a good place to start, because I will tell you what gifts may make you win the gift giving challenge in 2021!

You can also check out my previous post from March about great gifts for programmers. Things that I mentioned there are:

  • a small computer
  • laptop stickers
  • a mug
  • a portable laptop monitor
  • wrist rest
  • carton standing desk
  • Summon The JSON deck

As you can see these are some pretty unique ideas. Today I am here to update you with some fresh new ideas. Since I am a programmers, I have pretty great understanding what is fresh, new and exciting for programmers currently.

I won’t advertise books and online courses, games here, because these gift ideas are cliche.

1. A medieval ranger cloak

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.