Bad practices Memes

The Vibe Coder's Spicy Deployment

33 minutes ago 4.1K views 0 shares

BEHOLD! The magnificent Salt Bae of programming! Sprinkling his code with a flamboyant flourish of HTTP status codes and questionable life choices! 💅✨ This coding maestro isn't just writing code - he's PERFORMING ART, darling! Seasoning production environments with 400 Bad Requests, 401 Unauthorized drama, 402 Payment Required (because who doesn't love surprise billing?), and the classic 404 Not Found when everything inevitably crashes and burns! And the pièce de résistance? Those STUPID VARIABLE NAMES that future developers will absolutely SCREAM about during code reviews. "Why is this variable called 'chonkyBoi'? WHY IS THE DATABASE CONNECTION STRING STORED IN 'juicySecret'?!" This is what happens when you code purely on vibes and caffeine, sweetie. The production server never stood a chance! 💔

PNG To SVG Converter: The Lazy Developer Edition

Webdev Programming Frontend

4 days ago 130.5K views 1 shares

PNG To SVG Converter: The Lazy Developer Edition

The laziest SVG "conversion" known to mankind. Instead of actually converting the PNG to vector graphics, some genius just embedded the entire PNG image inside an SVG wrapper. It's like putting a hamburger inside a taco shell and calling it Mexican cuisine. The shocked cat perfectly captures how any self-respecting developer feels discovering this abomination in production code. Bonus points if this was done by the same person who puts all their CSS in a <style> tag at the bottom of each HTML file.

YAML: Your Awful Markup Language

Programming Debugging Testing Databases Backend

7 days ago 96.0K views 0 shares

Ever stared at eye tracking data in YAML format? It's like watching your life decisions unfold in real-time, but with more indentation errors. This beautiful mess of coordinates, timestamps, and pupil dilations is exactly what happens when someone takes the "/s" tag too literally. The joke being that YAML's human-readable format completely falls apart when you dump raw numerical data into it. Eight years of engineering experience has taught me one thing: just because you can store something in YAML doesn't mean you should . This is the digital equivalent of storing soup in a colander.

Security Achieved... By Broadcasting The Secret Code

Security Programming Testing

9 days ago 134.6K views 0 shares

Security Achieved... By Broadcasting The Secret Code

When your "secure" one-factor authentication system literally displays the verification code in the same message asking for it. Nothing says "Fort Knox of cybersecurity" like putting the answer key right above the test! The person who implemented this probably also uses "password123" and thinks incognito mode is military-grade encryption. Security teams worldwide just collectively facepalmed so hard they broke their mechanical keyboards.

The Magic Number Mastermind

Programming Debugging Testing

12 days ago 117.9K views 0 shares

The galaxy brain approach to coding: why bother with a handful of dynamic variables when you can create a magnificent constellation of magic numbers? Nothing says "I trust my future self" quite like hardcoding 50 constants instead of using meaningful variables that might actually explain what your code does. The real 200 IQ move is creating a codebase so rigid that when requirements change (and they always change), you get to play the exciting game of "find and replace across 47 files." Bonus points if you name them all var1 through var50 !

The Hardcoding Grandmaster's Gambit

Python Gamedev Algorithms Programming Debugging

13 days ago 124.8K views 0 shares

The absolute AUDACITY of this developer printing an entire chess board for EACH POSSIBLE MOVE! 😱 Instead of creating a simple reusable function, this maniac is hard-coding 2.6 MILLION lines to handle every chess position! It's the programming equivalent of writing out every word in the dictionary instead of just looking it up! The poor soul who has to review this code will need therapy AND a new keyboard after smashing the current one into oblivion. Chess programming doesn't have to be your villain origin story, people!

The Chad Commit Strategy

Git Devops Agile Programming

14 days ago 121.6K views 0 shares

Rewrote the entire codebase but called it "minor changes" in the commit message? Absolute chad move. Nothing says "I fear no code review" like casually pushing 4000 lines of changes directly to main with that description. The person who has to review this PR is probably contemplating a career change right now. It's the programming equivalent of renovating an entire house and telling your spouse you "just moved a few things around."

The Best Few Lines Of Code I've Seen For A While

php Security Programming Debugging Testing

14 days ago 119.5K views 0 shares

The Best Few Lines Of Code I've Seen For A While

BEHOLD! The most exquisite example of "it's not a bug, it's a feature" I've ever witnessed in my ENTIRE LIFE! 😂 This magnificent function claims to validate emails but actually does NOTHING of the sort! If it can't validate? Just assume it's valid! If the filter function doesn't exist? VALID! The ultimate "this is fine" meme in code form. Somewhere, a security expert is having heart palpitations while a project manager is celebrating how quickly this ticket was closed. Pure. Evil. Genius.

When Your Debug Statements Expose Your Maturity Level

Programming Ruby Debugging Backend

14 days ago 116.6K views 0 shares

When Your Debug Statements Expose Your Maturity Level

When your senior dev reviews your Elixir/Phoenix code and finds that sneaky logger statement you forgot to remove before pushing to production. The classic "Dose nuts fit in your mouth?" joke hidden in a Phoenix controller action is the programming equivalent of leaving a whoopee cushion on the CTO's chair. And let's be honest, no AI is going to understand why that's both hilarious and a career-limiting move.

Naming Things: The Nested Nightmare

Programming Algorithms Python Debugging

15 days ago 106.1K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic variable naming progression of a developer slowly losing their mind! Started with a reasonable user , then users for a collection, and then... complete descent into nested list madness. By the time we hit userssssssss with 8 levels of nesting, we're basically writing code that future-you will need therapy to debug. The number of brackets at the end is practically a bracket avalanche waiting to crash your syntax highlighter. This is what happens when you code at 1% battery with no variable naming convention document in sight.

I Keep It In GPT Chat

AI Git Programming Cloud

16 days ago 119.4K views 0 shares

The modern developer's version control system: ChatGPT. Sure, we've evolved from USB sticks to Google Drive, but some of us have ascended to a higher plane of chaotic development—keeping our precious code snippets in chat history with an AI. Nothing says "senior developer with impeccable practices" quite like frantically scrolling through your conversation history at 2 PM during a production outage trying to find that one clever function you wrote last month. Git who? Never heard of her.

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