Please Don't Touch

Technical debt Refactoring Legacy code Coding horror Production code Junior vs senior Temporary solutions If it works don't touch it Software maintenance Experience

Programming Debugging Testing Devops

3 months ago 167,875 views 0 shares

Please Don't Touch

legacy-code-memes, technical-debt-memes, refactoring-memes, junior-vs-senior-memes, temporary-solutions-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

The stack of rocks holding up that fence is basically legacy code in its purest form. Junior devs see it and think, "What an ugly hack! I'll just refactor this real quick." Meanwhile, senior devs know the truth - that "temporary" solution has been supporting the entire system for years, and disturbing it would trigger a cascade of disasters nobody can predict. The fence hasn't fallen yet, so clearly those random rocks are doing something right! It's the programming equivalent of finding duct tape holding together critical infrastructure and slowly backing away.

More Like This

Queue The Crickets

Programming Agile

6 months ago 145.3K views 0 shares

Queue The Crickets

The modern developer's immunity to recruiter spam has reached legendary status. After years of "Hi {first_name}" messages and "exciting opportunities" that pay in exposure and free snacks, we've evolved strict filtering criteria. Six figures? Remote work? No agile ceremonies where I pretend to care about story points? Suddenly the recruiter has our attention. It's not that we're difficult—we've just been burned enough times to know exactly what we want. That awkward silence when the recruiter realizes they can't offer any of those things? Priceless. Almost as valuable as the 4 hours of my life I'll never get back from that "quick technical chat" that turned into implementing a binary tree from scratch.

Language Barrier

Programming

1 year ago 46.2K views 0 shares

languageBarrier | reddit-memes, language-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content Me when I finally find a Reddit post that has a solution to my problem The second half is in Tagalog

You Son Of A Gun

Programming StackOverflow Debugging

7 months ago 110.5K views 0 shares

You Son Of A Gun

The ultimate power trip doesn't exist in chess—it exists on Stack Overflow. That smug little smirk says it all: "Actually, your approach is completely wrong and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of basic principles that I mastered during my lunch break in 2011." Nothing quite matches the high of demolishing someone's simple question with an unnecessarily complex answer sprinkled with links to documentation they should have "obviously" read. Bonus points for starting with "As others have pointed out incorrectly..." before proceeding to write a dissertation that could've been a three-word reply.

MAKE YP YOUR MIND!!

Programming

2 years ago 32.9K views 0 shares

MAKE YP YOUR MIND!! | semicolon-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content SHOULD I USE SEMICOLONS OR NOT? JAVASCRIPT: Who the fuck knows.

Poor kid

Programming Frontend Backend

4 years ago 42.7K views 0 shares

Poor kid | code-memes, web-memes, website-memes, loc-memes, http-memes, IT-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content Messages Jimmy Details codehub. Hey bro, after days of hard work, I finally built a website Can you check it out?? http:localhost:3000hi That's awesome! Looks great bro! Thanks bro!

Don't Even Feel Bad About It

Programming AI Debugging

2 months ago 212.9K views 0 shares

Don't Even Feel Bad About It

Just sitting back with my popcorn watching the AI hype train derail in slow motion. All these devs who pivoted their entire careers to "prompt engineering" are about to discover what us old-timers already know - there's no shortcut to understanding the fundamentals. When the hallucinations pile up and the VC money dries out, guess who'll be debugging the mess? The same people who've been writing actual code for decades. Munching carrots while watching careers burn is my new hobby.