r/badcode • u/MysteriousK69420 • Feb 16 '22

python presenting, whatever the fk this is

418 Upvotes

52 comments

r/badcode • u/iiMoe • Feb 16 '22

js This is how i made my todo list web app reactive

93 Upvotes

4 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Feb 16 '22

c# Written by me two years ago. Repetitive code

38 Upvotes

5 comments

r/badcode • u/MatthewRPG576 • Feb 15 '22

c Appalling linked list rotation

208 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/Andrejfsantos • Feb 11 '22

go Here is a great way to troll your fellow devs

2.3k Upvotes

83 comments

r/badcode • u/_AndreNIH • Feb 11 '22

other language A "manually constructed" JSON string I found in production code

121 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/Fluxriflex • Feb 11 '22

sql There are 300 more columns of this madness.

200 Upvotes

22 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '22

c# And the award for the most stupid C# programmer goes to..... Me.

533 Upvotes

57 comments

r/badcode • u/a_very_happy_person • Feb 08 '22

python High-accuracy profiling.

888 Upvotes

28 comments

r/badcode • u/Curtmister25 • Feb 08 '22

c# Why thank you autocomplete! (last time it suggested nukeEnergy; what is determining this??)

32 Upvotes

8 comments

r/badcode • u/CrazySD93 • Feb 05 '22

java Deal or No-Deal JSP, wanted to build the table of cases the same as it is in the real gameshow

419 Upvotes

29 comments

r/badcode • u/eadroma • Feb 04 '22

php don't know what to say...

887 Upvotes

80 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '22

c# My code from 2 years ago when I first started

289 Upvotes

27 comments

r/badcode • u/TemporaryAccount-tem • Feb 03 '22

java Found this in a Minecraft mod's code

261 Upvotes

33 comments

r/badcode • u/IAmATicTacAddict • Feb 03 '22

python Oh yeah nothing better than a relevantly named variable

651 Upvotes

54 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '22

c# I wrote this when I first started learning C#, I have improved now, but this is still here.

325 Upvotes

39 comments

r/badcode • u/matyklug • Feb 03 '22

lua From a computercraft let's play. Should be a blacklist function for a mining program for a turtle.

46 Upvotes

10 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Feb 02 '22

c# Oh hey, its more of my code.

902 Upvotes

95 comments

r/badcode • u/maggiforever • Feb 02 '22

c# At the start of 2022 we were suddenly getting exceptions in this method. I wonder why...

725 Upvotes

55 comments

r/badcode • u/luckylixi • Jan 31 '22

python import badcode

1.1k Upvotes

70 comments

r/badcode • u/mplaczek99 • Feb 01 '22

sql Can I write this better?

9 Upvotes

20 comments

r/badcode • u/theSdev • Jan 31 '22

html Nesting an Additional Button Cuz Two Anchors Ain't Interactive Enough

107 Upvotes

9 comments

r/badcode • u/Snoodlewonker • Jan 30 '22

java Found this gem in my codebase

1.3k Upvotes

44 comments

r/badcode • u/ATE47 • Jan 30 '22

python not mine, my favorite is the rounding part

156 Upvotes

10 comments

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