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The Leap Year Betrayal

Testing Agile Programming Debugging

15 days ago 60.7K views 0 shares

The Leap Year Betrayal

Oh, the sweet false security of unit tests on leap day! You're all confident when the boss messages you because you actually wrote tests for once. Then February 29th rolls around and your date handling logic implodes spectacularly. Nothing says "I'm a professional developer" quite like your app crashing every four years because you hardcoded month lengths or forgot leap year logic exists. The calendar: nature's way of trolling programmers since the beginning of time.

I Wrote My Own Calendar Library

Programming Debugging Frontend Backend

1 month ago 101.1K views 0 shares

I Wrote My Own Calendar Library

So you wrote your own calendar library and now December has 34 days. Classic. This is why we don't reinvent wheels that track the rotation of our planet. Next you'll tell me you've optimized February to have -3 days to compensate. Somewhere, a project manager is wondering why Q4 reports are delayed while you explain that technically, the year isn't over yet according to your implementation.

Ok Who Forgot To Put 2025 In The Switch Statement

Programming C++ Debugging Testing

2 months ago 118.7K views 0 shares

Ok Who Forgot To Put 2025 In The Switch Statement

Ah yes, the classic "let's handle years with a switch statement" approach. Some poor developer back in 1999 was like: switch(year) {   case 2020: // pandemic mode   case 2021: // still pandemic   case 2022: // recovery mode   case 2023: // normal-ish   case 2024: // election chaos   // TODO: add more years later   default: trainControl.panic(); } And then they quit, got promoted, or died before anyone remembered to add 2025. Twenty-five years after Y2K and we're still writing software like time is a finite concept. This is why we can't have nice things... or functioning trains, apparently.

Let He Who Is Without Sin

Debugging Javascript Programming Testing

2 months ago 103.9K views 0 shares

Let He Who Is Without Sin

The perfect representation of code review karma. First you're all high and mighty, pointing out bugs in someone's date converter. Then you see their conditional statement with zero-indexed months and suddenly you're face-down in shame because your code has the exact same off-by-one errors. The universe has a way of humbling developers right after they get cocky about someone else's bugs. That condition if(MONTH==0&&DAY==0){MONTH=11;DAY=31}; is exactly why we can't have nice things in programming. And also why we drink.