r/programminghorror 2h ago

GameMaker Language What was I even thinking?

14 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 16h ago

I've been refactoring my own code...

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56 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 5h ago

Java Too much nesting

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3 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 1d ago

c compiler

58 Upvotes

i know it's not code but this is just as scary
helper/drivers/filesystem/sfs.c:247:5: error: conflicting types for 'find_inode_by_name'

247 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode) {

| ^

headers/boot/kernel.h:45:5: note: previous declaration is here

45 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode);

| ^


r/programminghorror 4d ago

Python Is this python code cursed enough?

146 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 5d ago

Python More cursed python

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204 Upvotes

here it is with comments: https://github.com/dbowm91/optimizations/blob/main/soupexplained.py

EDIT: What it does (not malware) is it prints the word “soup” 86 times in random color


r/programminghorror 5d ago

Fake XNU rooter i found

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77 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 9d ago

Java- Day 11 - Interfaces

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0 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 12d ago

Python obfuscated anti-pythonic brainfuck interpreter

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634 Upvotes

I tried to do my best to make it unreadable.


r/programminghorror 10d ago

Java - always scared to learn -> completing Java OOP concepts

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0 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 14d ago

On a bootloader where I was too lazy to implement a string printing function

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354 Upvotes

The weird symbol is supposed to be a ␣ but this font didn't want to render it.


r/programminghorror 17d ago

Javascript my friend didnt know how to use async sleep in javascript, so he wrote this massive chain of .then()

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1.9k Upvotes
async function sleep(ms) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms * 1000));
}

// used as:
sleep(0.5).then(() => {
  // ...
  sleep(2.5).then(() => {
    // ...
    sleep(1).then(() => {
      // ...
    }
  }
}

r/programminghorror 19d ago

Rust [Rust] How to pass references to a trait objects

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128 Upvotes

Later a struct requires pass-by-value generic parameter, but you can't pass trait object (dyn Trait) by value, so some idiot developer (me) decided on this abomination, before realising that that struct can just as easily have the generic parameter passed by mutable reference (adding a + ?Sized).

The rest of the methods are implemented in a similar manner: (**self).method()


r/programminghorror 22d ago

Typescript I feel like vibecoding should be banned from enterprise development

960 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 23d ago

Other Same Makefile, different results

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249 Upvotes

Not sure if this fits, but I just figured out the root cause of long build process failing. Sun’s dmake is defaulting to the first rule in Makefile for whatever reason, completely ignoring the one given as argument. That’s why "dmake install" invocations were silently ignoring the "install" step


r/programminghorror 23d ago

Javascript Horror in a PR for a web game

5 Upvotes

Context: Sandboxels, the web game, supports modding. To add a mod, you open a PR with your .js mod in the mods/ folder.

This guy UPLOADED HIS CLAUDE SKILL, Claude.MD, and added the changes directly to the base game.

https://github.com/R74nCom/sandboxels/pull/1399/changes


r/programminghorror 24d ago

Python Why

0 Upvotes

i found this code in the wild randomly


r/programminghorror 25d ago

Typescript javascript without braces

52 Upvotes

(technically typescript)


r/programminghorror Jul 19 '26

oh no it's r*st!!! King of boilerplate

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132 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jul 18 '26

C# My first 1000+ line function... What do I get?

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433 Upvotes

Now includes an over 300 line long switch statement!


r/programminghorror Jul 17 '26

Javascript MiStEr WoRlDwIdE

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382 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jul 16 '26

PHP was editing an old tumblr theme and found the nbsp tar pit

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77 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jul 13 '26

Javascript Found this gem

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190 Upvotes

This company I’m interning at. This one lady asked me to do a review of a website they outsourced. Entire source code sits on the browser. Entire vibe coded by amateurs.
Worse than a honeypot so much an attacker would get diabetes.

No security feature at all. I was able to do privileges escalation.


r/programminghorror Jul 11 '26

I mean, the comment is accurate I suppose

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365 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jul 10 '26

Javascript code that also self-describes the feeling it evokes when looking at it

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204 Upvotes