Camelcase Memes

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I Don't Know Why But They All Post Like This

I Don't Know Why But They All Post Like This
The eternal struggle of variable naming conventions! Some developers just can't resist typing thisKindOfVariable or ThisKindOfClass while others go for this_kind_of_variable . But then there's that one colleague who commits monstrosities like thiskindofvariable to the codebase. You've seen it for months, but now it's too late to bring it up in code review without sounding like you've been secretly judging them (which, let's be honest, you absolutely have been).

The Snake Case Prophet

The Snake Case Prophet
The holy war of naming conventions rages on! Some brave soul dared to preach the gospel of snake_case in a world dominated by camelCase zealots. Just like in biblical times, speaking the truth about proper variable naming gets you crucified in code reviews. The underscores shall inherit the codebase! Meanwhile, the PascalCase disciples and kebab-case heretics watch from the sidelines as the great naming schism continues to divide developer communities since the dawn of programming.

Same With New Line Before Curly Braces

Same With New Line Before Curly Braces
The holy war that never ends. One dev asks if you use camelCase or PascalCase, and the other responds with the only sane answer: following your team's coding conventions. The first guy is basically that colleague who will die on the hill of their personal style preferences while the rest of us just want the codebase to be consistent so we can go home at a reasonable hour.

Naming Is Important

Naming Is Important
Developers rejecting the verbose validateDate() in favor of the pun-tastic valiDate() is peak naming culture. When you spend 8 hours coding and 6 hours thinking of clever function names that'll make your colleagues exhale slightly harder through their noses during code review. The real validation we seek is from our peers, not our dates.

The Sacred Underscore

The Sacred Underscore
The eternal battle of naming conventions. Developers physically recoil at the sight of userId with its camelCase blasphemy, but experience pure ecstasy when encountering the sacred snake_case user_id . It's not a preference—it's a religion. The underscore is basically the holy symbol of database column naming.

The Case For Proper Capitalization

The Case For Proper Capitalization
Ah, the sacred art of variable naming. When your brain sees userId , it reads "user ID." But when it sees userid , your inner voice screams "USER-id???" like some confused database goblin. This is the hill many senior devs choose to die on after years of staring at poorly named variables. We'll spend 15 minutes in code review arguing about capitalization but somehow let that 500-line function with no comments slide right through.

What I Actually Understood

What I Actually Understood
Someone said to make function names self-explanatory, and buddy took it literally . The irony is palpable as they create a function called "selfExplanatory" with increasingly chaotic casing and naming conventions, then ask "Am I doing it right?" Meanwhile, the only response is just an opening parenthesis - the universal symbol for "I've given up trying to explain this to you." Nothing says "I understand coding best practices" like completely missing the point while technically following instructions.

The Toughest Job: Surviving A Code Review

The Toughest Job: Surviving A Code Review
Welcome to the thunderdome of naming conventions, where senior devs battle to the death over camelCase vs snake_case while the junior dev sits in the corner naming variables like they're randomly hitting the keyboard. Nothing triggers developers more than variable names. Two senior devs locked in mortal combat over updatedNumber vs numberToBeUpdated is just Tuesday at most companies. Meanwhile, the junior dev is off creating digital war crimes with aa1 and xyz - blissfully unaware they're violating every coding standard since FORTRAN. Code reviews aren't about finding bugs anymore—they're just elaborate ceremonies where we pretend variable naming is worth physical violence.

Both Make Sense In Different Contexts

Both Make Sense In Different Contexts
The eternal holy war of naming conventions. Left side: snake_case with verb-first style (a Java dev's nightmare). Right side: Hungarian notation with noun-first approach (makes Python devs twitch uncontrollably). Both perfectly valid until you try to collaborate with literally anyone else, at which point your git history becomes a battlefield of reformatting commits. The real question isn't tabs vs spaces—it's whether your function names read like English sentences or technical manuals.

Prod Down But Conventions Upheld

Prod Down But Conventions Upheld
The server is LITERALLY ON FIRE, production is crashing harder than my dating life, and what are these developers doing? Having an EXISTENTIAL CRISIS over camelCase vs snake_case! 🙄 Meanwhile, that poor code reviewer is being torn apart, desperately trying to focus on the ACTUAL APOCALYPSE happening in production—you know, that tiny little infinite loop that's currently melting the server and making customers scream into the void. But sure, let's debate naming conventions while Rome burns! Priorities, people! PRIORITIES! 💅

The Evolution Of Naming Conventions

The Evolution Of Naming Conventions
The three stages of variable naming in every developer's career: Top: camelCase - One hump for each word. Simple, elegant, industry standard. Middle: PascalCase - Like camelCase but with an ego. Every word gets to start with a capital letter. Bottom: snake_case - For when you're slithering through code at 3am and can't be bothered to reach for the shift key. And somewhere, not pictured: kebab-case - The naming convention that didn't make it into the suitcase.

Guess What Time It Is

Guess What Time It Is
THE GREAT NAMING CONVENTION SHOWDOWN! 🔥 Developers will literally start holy wars over these casing styles rather than fix actual bugs! You've got the elegant camelCase strutting around like it owns JavaScript, while snake_case slithers through Python code thinking it's sooo readable. And don't get me STARTED on SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE! It's just YELLING AT YOU for NO REASON! Meanwhile, kebab-case is just hanging out there like "hey guys, can I join your HTML attributes party?" PascalCase (aka UpperCamel) is basically camelCase's pretentious cousin who insists on capitalizing EVERYTHING important. The drama! The tension! The absolute TRAGEDY of spending three hours arguing about this in code reviews! 💀