r/programminghorror 3d ago

c++ clangd is complaining loudly but I kinda like it...

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104 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 3d ago

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

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115 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 4d ago

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

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398 Upvotes

Now includes an over 300 line long switch statement!


r/programminghorror 5d ago

Javascript MiStEr WoRlDwIdE

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362 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 6d ago

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

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70 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 9d ago

Javascript Found this gem

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191 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 11d ago

I mean, the comment is accurate I suppose

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370 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 12d ago

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

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200 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 13d ago

Big if true

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2.1k Upvotes

From ProgrammerNullposting in facebook


r/programminghorror 12d ago

Array-Free

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13 Upvotes
randomize
if (cone1x >= carx - 16) and (cone1x <= carx + 16) and (cone1y > 416) and (cone1y < 480) then goto gameover
cone1y = cone1y + speed
if cone1y > 512 then  cone1y = 0 : cone1x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone2x >= carx - 16) and (cone2x <= carx + 16) and (cone2y > 416) and (cone2y < 480) then goto gameover
cone2y = cone2y + speed
if cone2y > 512 then  cone2y = 0 : cone2x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone3x >= carx -16) and (cone3x <= carx + 16) and (cone3y > 416) and (cone3y < 480) then goto gameover
cone3y = cone3y + speed
if cone3y > 512 then  cone3y = 0 : cone3x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone4x >= carx - 16) and (cone4x <= carx + 16) and (cone4y > 416) and (cone4y < 480) then goto gameover
cone4y = cone4y + speed
if cone4y > 512 then  cone4y = 0 : cone4x = cubyte(rnd*256)


if (cone5x >= carx - 16) and (cone5x <= carx + 16) and (cone5y > 416) and (cone5y < 480) then goto gameover
cone5y = cone5y + speed
if cone5y > 512 then  cone5y = 0 : cone5x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone6x >= carx - 16) and (cone6x <= carx + 16) and (cone6y > 416) and (cone6y < 480) then goto gameover
cone6y = cone6y + speed
if cone6y > 512 then  cone6y = 0 : cone6x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone7x >= carx -16) and (cone7x <= carx + 16) and (cone7y > 416) and (cone7y < 480) then goto gameover
cone7y = cone7y + speed
if cone7y > 512 then  cone7y = 0 : cone7x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone8x >= carx - 16) and (cone8x <= carx + 16) and (cone8y > 416) and (cone8y < 480) then goto gameover
cone8y = cone8y + speed
if cone8y > 512 then  cone8y = 0 : cone8x = cubyte(rnd*256)randomize
if (cone1x >= carx - 16) and (cone1x <= carx + 16) and (cone1y > 416) and (cone1y < 480) then goto gameover
cone1y = cone1y + speed
if cone1y > 512 then  cone1y = 0 : cone1x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone2x >= carx - 16) and (cone2x <= carx + 16) and (cone2y > 416) and (cone2y < 480) then goto gameover
cone2y = cone2y + speed
if cone2y > 512 then  cone2y = 0 : cone2x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone3x >= carx -16) and (cone3x <= carx + 16) and (cone3y > 416) and (cone3y < 480) then goto gameover
cone3y = cone3y + speed
if cone3y > 512 then  cone3y = 0 : cone3x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone4x >= carx - 16) and (cone4x <= carx + 16) and (cone4y > 416) and (cone4y < 480) then goto gameover
cone4y = cone4y + speed
if cone4y > 512 then  cone4y = 0 : cone4x = cubyte(rnd*256)


if (cone5x >= carx - 16) and (cone5x <= carx + 16) and (cone5y > 416) and (cone5y < 480) then goto gameover
cone5y = cone5y + speed
if cone5y > 512 then  cone5y = 0 : cone5x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone6x >= carx - 16) and (cone6x <= carx + 16) and (cone6y > 416) and (cone6y < 480) then goto gameover
cone6y = cone6y + speed
if cone6y > 512 then  cone6y = 0 : cone6x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone7x >= carx -16) and (cone7x <= carx + 16) and (cone7y > 416) and (cone7y < 480) then goto gameover
cone7y = cone7y + speed
if cone7y > 512 then  cone7y = 0 : cone7x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone8x >= carx - 16) and (cone8x <= carx + 16) and (cone8y > 416) and (cone8y < 480) then goto gameover
cone8y = cone8y + speed
if cone8y > 512 then  cone8y = 0 : cone8x = cubyte(rnd*256)

r/programminghorror 13d ago

Shell I know package managers can be rough, but this??

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920 Upvotes

Because using the hallucination machine as a package manager could never go wrong, ever!


r/programminghorror 13d ago

Java Some of my AP CS teachers best work

117 Upvotes

this was right before the exam btw, this wasn't him teaching us the basics

```

if (x ==1) {

return true;

} else if (x != 1) {

return false;

}
```

```

public class Bank() {

private int money;

public void setAmount(int money) {

    this.money = money;

}

private int getMoney() {

    return money;

}

}

```

(he then never used getMoney())

some other amazing conventions he taught us was to always comment every single line of code, to an obnoxious point. he told us to use getter and setters everywhere, even when constructors are all thats necessary and half the time the getters were private and just returned the value directly. He just gave up on teaching us recursion because he didnt understand it and "it would never actually show up on the ap exam".

if I hadnt already known a lot of java and been willing to teach it to my classmates when they asked, we would never have gotten past the exam. (newsflash, there were recursion questions on the exam)


r/programminghorror 14d ago

Wdym my code is a mess? Looks fine to me; monitors are horizontal for a reason

490 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 17d ago

c Enterprise level C code

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338 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 11 '26

Java our software architect wrote this

400 Upvotes

boolean isAllowed = "true".equals(getAttribute(item, "isAllowed"))

the fields of "item" get populated through an xml file and parser. what could possibly go wrong here? hint: he wrote "isAlowed" and commited it like that.


r/programminghorror Jun 11 '26

PHP PHP#

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209 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 10 '26

c What?

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221 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 09 '26

What a simple constructor

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266 Upvotes

Our former IT director (35+ years of experience) wrote this and didn't see what was wrong here.


r/programminghorror Jun 09 '26

Javascript Composer 2.5 doesn't know how JS functions work

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176 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 08 '26

Other Figuring this out made me so angry I threw a chair

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108 Upvotes

I just wanted a loop man...

Second image is my attempt at explaining things.

No, the chair is not OK.

This is in the Discrete event simulation software JaamSim.

Edit: the software does not have any implementation of for/while loops otherwise that would have been the first thing I tried


r/programminghorror Jun 08 '26

c This uint 32 definition is actually 64 bits

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308 Upvotes

Took me quite a while to debug this, considering I expected uint32 to be a... uint32?


r/programminghorror Jun 08 '26

Lua Lua Serpent Module

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65 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 05 '26

C# SuccessMessage ErrorMessage

228 Upvotes

ErrorMessage successMessage = new ErrorMessage(ErrorType.ActivityCreateSuccess);

(From an approved PR with 2 reviewers - how do some people sleep at night??)


r/programminghorror Jun 05 '26

No, you don't understand. What if HP changed while I wasn't looking?

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1.3k Upvotes

(HP can't be changed while this code is running and even if it could then this approach would cause more problems than having it all in one if statement because then the boss would only be half-defeated and everything would go wrong)


r/programminghorror Jun 05 '26

fuckup #1: the github ban

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