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Throw It For The 2026

2 days ago 201.3K views 0 shares

Someone asked for the worst tech advice and honestly, this is peak developer wisdom right here. Just wrap everything in a try-catch block and throw it into the void. Error handling? Never heard of her. Stack traces? Who needs 'em when you can just silently fail and pretend nothing happened. This is basically the programming equivalent of sweeping dirt under the rug and calling it cleaning. Your app crashes? Try-catch. Database connection fails? Try-catch. Existential crisis at 2 AM? Believe it or not, also try-catch. The catch block stays empty though—because acknowledging problems is for people who have time for proper error handling. Production bugs will love you for this approach. Future you will definitely not be cursing past you while debugging why the application just... stops working with zero logs or error messages. Ship it!

To That One Vibecoder That Talked Shit

StackOverflow Programming Debugging

3 days ago 139.1K views 0 shares

Oh honey, someone woke up and chose VIOLENCE today! This is the programmer equivalent of "I didn't cheat on the test, I just strategically collaborated with my neighbor's paper." Our hero here is out here defending their honor with the intensity of a thousand code reviews, swearing on their IDE that they're crafting artisanal, hand-written code with ZERO help from Stack Overflow. They're basically saying "I may not understand what my code does, but at least it's MINE and I didn't copy-paste it!" Which is... honestly a flex of questionable value? Like congratulations, you organically grew your bugs from scratch! 🏆 The real tragedy is claiming they "perfect their code to the best of their abilities" while simultaneously admitting they don't understand how it works. That's not perfection bestie, that's just throwing spaghetti at the wall until something sticks and calling it Italian cuisine.

What Should You Never Ask Them

Git Devops Programming

3 days ago 218.1K views 0 shares

You know those sensitive topics people avoid at dinner parties? Well, tech has its own version. Don't ask a woman her age, don't ask a man his salary, and whatever you do, don't ask a "vibe coder" to explain their commit messages. Because let's be real—that commit history is a warzone of "fix bug", "asdfasdf", "PLEASE WORK", and "I have no idea what I changed but it works now". Asking them to explain their commits is like asking someone to justify their life choices at 2 AM. It's not gonna end well. The "vibe coder" just codes by feel, ships features, and hopes nobody ever runs git blame on their work. Documentation? That's future-them's problem.

Choose Your Tech Debt

Programming Debugging

4 days ago 330.0K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the eternal fork in the road of software development. On the left, we have the noble path of refactoring that spaghetti mess you inherited from your past self (or worse, your predecessor). Sunshine, rainbows, clean architecture—basically a fantasy land that requires actual effort and time you definitely don't have. On the right? The dark, stormy path of "if it works, don't touch it." That haunted mansion of legacy code where you're pretty sure there's a function that's been running since 2009 and nobody knows why, but production hasn't exploded yet, so... 🤷 The developer stands at the crossroads, knowing full well they're about to take the right path because deadlines exist and management doesn't care about your SOLID principles. The real kicker? Both paths lead to tech debt anyway. One just gets you there faster while letting you sleep at night (barely). Future you will hate present you either way. Choose wisely... or don't. The code will judge you regardless.

Documentation Level: Cat

Programming

6 days ago 198.3K views 0 shares

You know your documentation is top-tier when it just says what the thing is. Variable named "cat"? Better add a comment that says "// cat" so future developers understand it's a cat. Function called getUserData()? Slap a "// gets user data" on there and call it a day. It's like labeling a box "BOX" and feeling productive about your organizational skills. The comment provides exactly zero additional information beyond what the code already screams at you. But hey, at least the comment count looks impressive in the metrics report. Pro tip: If your comment just repeats the function name in sentence form, you've achieved peak uselessness. Congratulations, you're now compliant with the "every function must have a comment" policy while contributing absolutely nothing to human knowledge.

Technical Debt

Programming Agile Debugging Backend

6 days ago 228.7K views 0 shares

When your PM asks you to explain technical debt like they're six, you pull out the Haggis story. Dude's got a hole in his roof but won't fix it when it's raining because it's too wet, and won't fix it when it's sunny because, well, there's no leak. Classic. That's your codebase right there. The bug isn't critical enough to fix during the sprint because everyone's busy shipping features, and when you finally have downtime, management says "if it ain't broke, don't touch it." Meanwhile, the hole gets bigger, the roof starts sagging, and eventually you're debugging a production incident at 2 AM wondering how a simple auth service turned into a distributed systems nightmare. The "Translate from French" button really seals the deal—because apparently technical debt is so universal it transcends language barriers. Haggis speaks to us all.

Coding With Eslint

Javascript Webdev Typescript Frontend

7 days ago 192.3K views 0 shares

You declare one class for the first time in your life, feeling proud of yourself, and ESLint immediately comes at you with the fury of a thousand linters. "Declared but never used" it screams, as if you weren't planning to use it in literally the next line. But no, ESLint has already judged you, found you wanting, and sentenced you to squiggly red underlines. It's like having a backseat driver who starts yelling before you even put the car in drive.

Randomly Stumbled Upon This Code In My Company's Product (CAE Software)

Programming C++ Algorithms Math

7 days ago 206.7K views 0 shares

Randomly Stumbled Upon This Code In My Company's Product (CAE Software)

Someone really said "I could use a loop" and then proceeded to manually hardcode what appears to be quaternion rotation calculations for every possible case. Each line is a beautiful handcrafted snowflake of copy-pasted arithmetic operations with slightly different array indices. This is what happens when you learn programming from a stenographer. The best part? There's probably a single matrix multiplication library function that could replace this entire screen of madness. But no, someone decided to type out hundreds of lines of p.a.c[i] * p.a.c[j] combinations like they were getting paid by the character. The code review must have been legendary. This is peak "it works, don't touch it" territory. Nobody's refactoring this beast because nobody wants to be the one who breaks the CAE software that's been running in production for 15 years.

Dr Blame The Dev

Rust Golang C++ Typescript Javascript

7 days ago 269.8K views 0 shares

Someone wrote a manifesto about how using C, C++, Python, or vanilla JavaScript in production is basically corporate negligence, advocating for Rust, Go, and TypeScript instead. The reply? "Nonsense. If your code has reached the point of unmaintainable complexity, then blame the author, not the language." Classic developer blame game. The first person is basically saying "your tools are bad and you should feel bad," while the second person fires back with "skill issue, not language issue." Both are technically correct, which makes this argument eternal. The reality? Yeah, modern languages with better type systems and memory safety do prevent entire classes of bugs. But also yeah, a terrible developer can write unmaintainable garbage in any language, including Rust. You can't memory-safety your way out of 10,000-line functions and zero documentation. The real takeaway: if you're shipping production code in 2025 without considering memory safety and type guarantees, you're making a choice. Just make sure it's an informed one, not a "we've always done it this way" one.

Perfection Is Optional Apparently

AI Agile Programming

8 days ago 241.6K views 0 shares

The hot take that's dividing the tech world: AI-generated code has officially normalized "good enough" as the new standard. The argument goes that while pre-AI devs obsessed over clean code, optimal algorithms, and elegant solutions, now everyone's just shipping whatever ChatGPT spits out and calling it a day. The brutal reality check here is that if you're still doing code reviews like it's 2019 while your competitors are deploying features at breakneck speed with AI-assisted "slop," you're basically bringing a fountain pen to a keyboard fight. The market doesn't care if your variable names are perfectly semantic or if you followed SOLID principles—it cares if the feature shipped yesterday. That comment though? "we all died in 2020 and this is hell" has 85.7K likes for a reason. The existential dread of watching software craftsmanship get steamrolled by velocity metrics hits different.

Slop Is Better Actually

AI Programming Debugging Backend

9 days ago 278.5K views 0 shares

So we've gone from "move fast and break things" to "move fast and let AI clean up your mess later." The galaxy brain take here is that tech debt—the accumulation of shortcuts, hacks, and questionable architectural decisions—is somehow an investment now. The reasoning? AI will eventually get good enough at refactoring that it'll just... fix everything for you while you sleep. It's the software equivalent of trashing your apartment because you heard Roombas are getting smarter next year. Sure, ship that spaghetti code. Name your variables "x1" through "x47." Nest those ternaries eight levels deep. Future AI will totally understand what drunk-you at 2 PM on a Friday was thinking. The real kicker is calling it an "interest rate" that's falling. Like tech debt is a mortgage you're refinancing, not a pile of burning garbage that makes onboarding new devs feel like archaeological fieldwork. But hey, if AI can refactor legacy code, maybe it can also explain to your future self why that 3000-line function seemed like a good idea.

Just A Simple Boolean Question

Programming Typescript Javascript Python Debugging

10 days ago 156.3K views 0 shares

You ask for a simple true or false , and suddenly you're parsing "Yes", "yeah", "Y", "true", "1", "ok", or my personal favorite: "success". The contract was clear—return a boolean. Instead, you get back a string that requires a whole new layer of validation logic. Now you're sitting there writing if (response.toLowerCase() === "true" || response === "1") like some kind of type-system archaeologist. Strong typing exists for a reason, people! The smugness on that kid's face? That's the exact energy of someone who just returned "False" with a capital F from an API endpoint.

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