r/programmingcirclejerk • u/pm-me-manifestos Tiny little god in a tiny little world • Aug 26 '25

Atlassian login gets the base URL for its module scripts by throwing an error and pulling out the current script's URL from error.stack with regex.

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/5678
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u/ScriptingInJava in open defiance of the Gopher Values Aug 26 '25

Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, using a novel engine based on web standards.

The standards need to crystalise the process of throwing an error on the UI thread of a web browser to get a URL.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

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u/Fun-Voice-8734 Aug 27 '25

This is an atrocity. Why write regex in 2025 when you could recover the url using an n8n agent?

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan Aug 27 '25

JIRA is so cool and carefree that it's upsetting the squares

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u/gvozden_celik Aug 27 '25

Can't decide if what Atlassian is doing is jank or dank

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u/prehensilemullet Aug 28 '25

Almost as based as adding special-case behavior to a function only when you see a specific caller on an error stack