Tech Support: The Dating App Nobody Asked For

The perfect metaphor for our relationship with legacy code! First, we acknowledge it feels abandoned and worthless after years of neglect. Then we realize we actually need it because the entire production system depends on it. We examine it closer, only to discover it's simultaneously a masterpiece of engineering and absolute garbage that nobody wants to refactor. The dung beetle whispering sweet nothings to literal crap is exactly how we justify maintaining that COBOL monstrosity from 1983 that somehow still processes all your financial transactions.

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The universal decision tree for bug prioritization in software development: 1. Is it easy to fix? → Immediately jumps to "I'll fix it immediately" 2. Actual importance? → *crickets* 3. Is it breaking production? → CRITICAL!!! The irony is painfully real. Developers will spend 4 hours fixing a one-pixel UI misalignment because it's "quick" but postpone refactoring that nightmare authentication system that's held together with duct tape and prayers. Then suddenly everything's on fire when it inevitably breaks.

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That Perl one-liner isn't printing a question mark—it's printing a terrifying ASCII face ! The code is a masterpiece of obfuscation that renders as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when executed. Meanwhile, Grok AI is completely failing at answering basic questions, showing "Something went wrong" errors. The bottom panel perfectly captures the two types of developers: the blissfully ignorant ones who just see random symbols, and the traumatized veterans who recognize the unholy Perl regex incantation and know exactly what eldritch horrors lurk in that command. The Russian text asking "It doesn't print. Why?" is just the cherry on top of this chaos sundae!

Content ?php header ("Content-type: texthtml; charsetutf-8"); This is a warning to any poor soul who may have to deal with this code. I took over this criminal piece of chaos from a monkey named Joel who I assume had been given a typewriter by Mephistopheles himself. For reasons I have yet been unable to fathom, he decided to patch together this thing using a BaseX setup hardwired into an unfixably broken Manjaro VM, queried by a handwritten plate of uncommented PH spaghetti fit to feed an army of people with a serious death wish, without any framework or CMS. The very long BaseX script, very long PH presenter and very long XSLT stylesheet mostly perform the same heuristic document structuring for different components and are supposed to produce compatible results, but I bet they have mismatches somewhere. Since Prof. T just wanted a few small functional enhancements, I decided to just patch it and keep the general setup. Unless you were hired to correct some spelling mistakes, DO NOT FOLLOW IN MY STEPS. Putting up with this simulation of how a goldfish would design a system has literally given me CLINICAL DEPRESSION. This is not an exaggeration, I am writing this after a prolonged medical therapy - mostly successful, thanks for asking, but not fun. I wouldn't wish this code on anybody who isn't a manager at Oracle or Facebook, and therefore give you this sincere advice: Nuke this. Take the XSLT if you must, and then nuke the app and recreate it in Django or whatever works for you. I would do it myself, but I risked a relapse simply by opening this file again to write this comment. Dear brother or sister, I wish you all the luck and strength in the world and hope it will be enough. Farewell. error reporting (E ALL); ini set ("display errors", true); print '?xmi version"1.o" encoding"UTFg" 7'