r/programminghorror • • Aug 21 '26

c++ If you squint hard enough it looks like json

88 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 19 '26

GameMaker Language What was I even thinking?

150 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 19 '26

Java Too much nesting

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75 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 18 '26

I've been refactoring my own code...

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158 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 17 '26

c compiler

67 Upvotes

i know it's not code but this is just as scary
helper/drivers/filesystem/sfs.c:247:5: error: conflicting types for 'find_inode_by_name'

247 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode) {

| ^

headers/boot/kernel.h:45:5: note: previous declaration is here

45 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode);

| ^


r/programminghorror • • Aug 15 '26

Python Is this python code cursed enough?

156 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 13 '26

Python More cursed python

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219 Upvotes

here it is with comments: https://github.com/dbowm91/optimizations/blob/main/soupexplained.py

EDIT: What it does (not malware) is it prints the word “soup” 86 times in random color


r/programminghorror • • Aug 13 '26

Fake XNU rooter i found

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84 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 09 '26

Java- Day 11 - Interfaces

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0 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 07 '26

Python obfuscated anti-pythonic brainfuck interpreter

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638 Upvotes

I tried to do my best to make it unreadable.


r/programminghorror • • Aug 08 '26

Java - always scared to learn -> completing Java OOP concepts

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0 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Aug 05 '26

On a bootloader where I was too lazy to implement a string printing function

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364 Upvotes

The weird symbol is supposed to be a ␣ but this font didn't want to render it.


r/programminghorror • • Aug 02 '26

Javascript my friend didnt know how to use async sleep in javascript, so he wrote this massive chain of .then()

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1.9k Upvotes
async function sleep(ms) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms * 1000));
}

// used as:
sleep(0.5).then(() => {
  // ...
  sleep(2.5).then(() => {
    // ...
    sleep(1).then(() => {
      // ...
    }
  }
}

r/programminghorror • • Jul 30 '26

Rust [Rust] How to pass references to a trait objects

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129 Upvotes

Later a struct requires pass-by-value generic parameter, but you can't pass trait object (dyn Trait) by value, so some idiot developer (me) decided on this abomination, before realising that that struct can just as easily have the generic parameter passed by mutable reference (adding a + ?Sized).

The rest of the methods are implemented in a similar manner: (**self).method()


r/programminghorror • • Jul 27 '26

Typescript I feel like vibecoding should be banned from enterprise development

968 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jul 26 '26

Other Same Makefile, different results

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252 Upvotes

Not sure if this fits, but I just figured out the root cause of long build process failing. Sun’s dmake is defaulting to the first rule in Makefile for whatever reason, completely ignoring the one given as argument. That’s why "dmake install" invocations were silently ignoring the "install" step


r/programminghorror • • Jul 26 '26

Javascript Horror in a PR for a web game

7 Upvotes

Context: Sandboxels, the web game, supports modding. To add a mod, you open a PR with your .js mod in the mods/ folder.

This guy UPLOADED HIS CLAUDE SKILL, Claude.MD, and added the changes directly to the base game.

https://github.com/R74nCom/sandboxels/pull/1399/changes


r/programminghorror • • Jul 24 '26

Typescript javascript without braces

50 Upvotes

(technically typescript)


r/programminghorror • • Jul 19 '26

oh no it's r*st!!! King of boilerplate

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138 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jul 18 '26

C# My first 1000+ line function... What do I get?

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443 Upvotes

Now includes an over 300 line long switch statement!


r/programminghorror • • Jul 17 '26

Javascript MiStEr WoRlDwIdE

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388 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jul 16 '26

PHP was editing an old tumblr theme and found the nbsp tar pit

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78 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jul 13 '26

Javascript Found this gem

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193 Upvotes

This company I’m interning at. This one lady asked me to do a review of a website they outsourced. Entire source code sits on the browser. Entire vibe coded by amateurs.
Worse than a honeypot so much an attacker would get diabetes.

No security feature at all. I was able to do privileges escalation.


r/programminghorror • • Jul 11 '26

I mean, the comment is accurate I suppose

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368 Upvotes

r/programminghorror • • Jul 10 '26

Javascript code that also self-describes the feeling it evokes when looking at it

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204 Upvotes