Code comments Memes

When Perfection Is Sus

1 day ago 58.0K views 0 shares

The duality of misspelled comments in code: some developers can't spell to save their lives, while others are playing 4D chess by deliberately misspelling things to prove they're human. It's the ultimate anti-AI flex. "Look at my glorious typo-laden comments! No LLM would ever write 'refactered the databass' or 'fixed bug in buttton click handeler'." The rest of us are just trying to remember if "received" is spelled with "ie" or "ei" while this mastermind is creating linguistic chaos as a career preservation strategy.

What Your Code Looks Like After A Week Of Not Opening It...

Python Programming Debugging

10 days ago 199.1K views 0 shares

What Your Code Looks Like After A Week Of Not Opening It...

Ever returned to your code after a week and suddenly it looks like an ancient hieroglyphic tablet? This is the perfect representation of code amnesia! The meme shows what appears to be Python code, but it's been transformed into an incomprehensible mess of weird characters and symbols that might as well be written in some alien language. The function seems to be doing... something? With inputs? And a loop? Who knows anymore! This is why we write comments, people! Though let's be honest, even those wouldn't help decipher this cryptographic nightmare. The best part is the pyperclip.copy() at the bottom - as if you'd ever want to copy and paste this monstrosity elsewhere. It's the digital equivalent of "I wrote this beautiful code and now I have absolutely no idea what it does."

Small Function, Big Documentation

Programming Debugging Testing

16 days ago 161.5K views 0 shares

The tiniest function in the codebase, yet somehow has the most dramatic documentation. That empty function with a novel-length comment explaining why we don't use it is the programming equivalent of buying gym equipment just to hang clothes on it. The best part? It's private, so nobody else will ever see your shame. That's not technical debt—it's a historical artifact preserved for future archaeologists to puzzle over.

The Cryptic Comment Conundrum

Programming Debugging

18 days ago 130.3K views 0 shares

The infamous "CAT" comment strikes again! Nothing quite says "I spent 3 hours debugging this function" like a random variable named "cat" with zero explanation. Is it a Counter Accumulation Total? Concatenated Array Tracker? Or just the developer's feline friend walking across the keyboard at a crucial moment? The world may never know, but that single word will haunt the next developer for eternity. The best part? The author probably thought it was perfectly self-explanatory.

Captain Obvious: The Code Commenter

Programming Debugging Testing

18 days ago 157.3K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of code documentation! 😱 We slap the most OBVIOUS labels on everything like we're some kind of genius for pointing out that a cat is, in fact, a CAT! 💅 Why bother writing // This function calculates tax when the function is LITERALLY called calculateTax() ?! The AUDACITY of developers stating the painfully obvious while leaving the actual cryptic nightmare code completely unexplained is just *chef's kiss* PEAK programming culture! Meanwhile, that ONE complex algorithm that actually needs explanation? CRICKETS! 🦗

Code Commit Confessions Of A Developer On The Edge

Git Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging

22 days ago 172.2K views 0 shares

Code Commit Confessions Of A Developer On The Edge

Behold, the RAWEST git commit in the history of software development! This developer isn't just frustrated—they're having a full-blown existential crisis while wrestling with Google's API. The combination of profanity-laden code comments, a random cat image, and a commit message threatening Google engineers is the coding equivalent of throwing your laptop out a 10-story window while screaming into the void. The absolute AUDACITY of writing " too lazy to fix this piece of shit " and then committing it to the repository is the kind of chaotic energy we should all fear. This isn't just technical debt—it's technical bankruptcy with a side of unhinged rage that's going to haunt the next developer who has to maintain this code.

Junior Devs Writing Comments

Programming Debugging Testing

24 days ago 156.7K views 0 shares

The code comment redundancy epidemic has reached street signs! Just like that sign helpfully pointing out "THIS IS A STOP SIGN" under an actual stop sign, junior devs have a special talent for writing comments that state the painfully obvious: // This function adds two numbers function add(a, b) {   return a + b; // Returns the sum } Senior devs scrolling through that code base are experiencing physical pain right now. Remember folks: good comments explain why , not what . Unless you're documenting an API, in which case... carry on with your obvious statements!

Ancient Scriptures

Programming Debugging Testing

29 days ago 129.2K views 0 shares

Ah, the archaeological expedition to decipher your own code from last month. That moment when you need Indiana Jones' skills just to understand what the hell you were thinking. "Why did I use a ternary operator inside a map function nested in a reduce?" The hieroglyphics might actually be easier to translate than whatever caffeine-fueled logic possessed you during that 3 AM coding session. The worst part? You probably left zero comments because "it was obvious" at the time. Congratulations, you've become your own worst legacy code maintainer.

Code Hoarding

Javascript Git Programming Debugging

1 month ago 156.4K views 0 shares

Ah, the digital equivalent of sweeping dust under the rug. Nothing says "job security" like maintaining a codebase where 60% is commented-out functions nobody dares to touch. The irony of having a function called getKeywords while half the actual keywords function is commented out is just *chef's kiss*. Future archaeologists will study these code fossils and wonder if we were preserving ancient artifacts or just too scared to hit the delete key.

Replacing Commas In Strings With A Lookalike, For Security Reasons

Javascript Security Programming Debugging

1 month ago 134.0K views 1 shares

Replacing Commas In Strings With A Lookalike, For Security Reasons

Ah, the classic "security through visual confusion" approach! This developer is replacing commas with Unicode character U+201A (single low-9 quotation mark) which looks nearly identical but won't trigger Airtable's delimiter parsing. The best part is the function name safeComma - as if this hack deserves the word "safe" anywhere near it. It's like putting a fake mustache on your data and calling it "military-grade encryption." This is the programming equivalent of writing "Not a Drug Deal" on your suspicious briefcase. Sure, it technically works, but someday, somewhere, a developer will inherit this code and question all their life choices.

When Your IDE Becomes Your English Teacher

Programming Gamedev Debugging

1 month ago 189.5K views 1 shares

When Your IDE Becomes Your English Teacher

STOP THE PRESSES! The code editor has become the grammar police! 💀 While you're just trying to write some innocent game code with "wanna," the editor is clutching its digital pearls like you've committed a syntax WAR CRIME. Because CLEARLY the most important thing when you're debugging at 2AM isn't fixing that memory leak—it's making sure your comments are FORMAL ENOUGH for the Queen's royal approval. Next thing you know, your IDE will be demanding you wear a tie while coding. THE AUDACITY!

Documentation Is Hard

Programming Agile Git Debugging Testing

1 month ago 189.8K views 0 shares

BEHOLD! The PINNACLE of technical documentation in all its glory! 🎨 Spent 72 hours coding a complex algorithm that could potentially save humanity, but the documentation? "I'm Tracy." THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE ENTIRE DOCUMENTATION. Future developers will have to perform a séance to understand this code because apparently naming a random person is all the context we need! Next time someone asks why the project is six months behind schedule, I'll just introduce myself and walk away. GENIUS!

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When Perfection Is Sus

What Your Code Looks Like After A Week Of Not Opening It...

Small Function, Big Documentation

The Cryptic Comment Conundrum

Captain Obvious: The Code Commenter

Code Commit Confessions Of A Developer On The Edge

Junior Devs Writing Comments

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