[oneepic]

>I'm probably being really picky here - just find this kind of developer in-crowd signalling to be really irritating and counterproductive.

Why is it "developer in-crowd signalling" rather than just a joke? IOW I read this as saying the jokes were "as bad as" virtue-signalling.

[robbles]

It's a statement that won't make sense to someone who's new to the topic.

I don't think it's related to virtue signalling at all, the two just share the word "signalling".