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Authenticate The Authentication

Authenticate The Authentication
When your authentication system is so secure, it needs to authenticate itself before authenticating users. That method signature is the programming equivalent of saying "I'm going to need to see some ID for your ID." The poor guy trapped in authentication purgatory is every developer who's had to implement OAuth2 with refresh tokens while their PM keeps asking "why can't users just login with a password?"

The Redundancy Department Of Redundancy

The Redundancy Department Of Redundancy
First frame: Seeing a ternary operator with an empty string fallback. Second frame: Realizing they wrapped it in a try-catch block that does exactly the same thing if it fails. That face when you discover someone wrote defensive code against their defensive code. It's like wearing a life jacket while sitting inside a lifeboat... that's inside another lifeboat. The redundancy is so beautifully pointless it's almost art.

Inflation Is Taking Over

Inflation Is Taking Over
Looks like someone forgot to handle their price exceptions in production. That electronic shelf label is just screaming "null null" where a price should be - the digital equivalent of a store clerk throwing their hands up and saying "I have no freaking idea what this costs anymore." Even the database is feeling the economic crisis. Can't afford to store actual values these days, just pointers to nothing. Somewhere a backend developer is getting a frantic call while pretending they didn't see the Slack notification.

Obfuscate Code

Obfuscate Code
Ah, the classic "5% chance of random failure" pattern! This diabolical code snippet deliberately throws a NullReferenceException 5% of the time for absolutely no logical reason. It's basically the digital equivalent of putting a LEGO on the floor of your codebase - someone's going to step on it at 2 AM during a production emergency and scream. Pure evil genius for making QA testers question their sanity and giving future maintainers trust issues. The best part? The error message falsely suggests there's an actual null reference problem to debug when it's just RNG chaos!

Dont Build On Google Products Guys

Dont Build On Google Products Guys
Ah, the classic "payment failed, delete everything" approach. Google Cloud apparently runs on the same code that powers my ex's memory after an argument. The best part? They didn't just nuke $80B worth of data once - they went after the backups too. Like a digital toddler throwing a tantrum: "You didn't pay? I'll delete this... AND THIS... AND THIS TOO!" This is why multi-cloud isn't paranoia, it's survival. And why the most important line in your codebase isn't the clever algorithm - it's the exception handler that doesn't rage-quit when payments hiccup.