I just found this in one of my old projects, I guess I blame it on too little sleep.10mo ⋅ superstreber3 ⋅ r/programminghorror
The code retrieves over 100000 string from the database and renders 100000 option element on the UI. It takes 1 minute to be rendered.2yr ⋅ lucSurMontaine ⋅ r/programminghorror
try catch statements for when the recursion(maze) goes out of bounds...1yr ⋅ mylizard ⋅ r/programminghorror
There is a lot of older code in our codebase that is a goldmine1yr ⋅ HeWhoShantNotBeNamed ⋅ r/programminghorror
i gave up on c# but after a few months i tryed to make a program to calculate an avarge over a month where i manully put in the values i dont think it turnt out good it works though1yr ⋅ Gayafboyyy ⋅ r/programminghorror
Me after ctrl-c ctrl-v from stack overflow and slightly changing it.1yr ⋅ 1cubealot ⋅ r/programminghorror
Found this in an old script of mine. I don't know why or how I did this, but I made this.3yr ⋅ Kintler11 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Is there a better way to do this for my AI image generator lol5mo ⋅ Party_Volume7132 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Soneone once wrote a custom function to remove leading zeroes. This is in production, mutiple methods use this function, this is also copied mutiple times into other projects5mo ⋅ PassFlat2947 ⋅ r/programminghorror
A friend of mine told me about a code he saw that was just like this1yr ⋅ The_Ovani ⋅ r/programminghorror
This is the slowest is_even that I can think of. Can you come up with something worse?3yr ⋅ BakuhatsuK ⋅ r/programminghorror
apparently comparing straight up bool values or plain simple '!' is out of style. send help :')1yr ⋅ Puzzleheaded_Pay9197 ⋅ r/programminghorror
C++ template for compile-time 7D arrays with tiled storage - my condolences to whoever at Sandia National Lab with the job of implementing that3mo ⋅ nic0nicon1 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Since you liked my friend's code so much last time, here is some more for your pleas... horror.3yr ⋅ NAL_Gaming ⋅ r/programminghorror
A Friend found this in GTA V... they managed to get everything wrong4yr ⋅ n0tKamui ⋅ r/programminghorror
Found a beautiful section of code from when i was first learning cpp2mo ⋅ p00nda ⋅ r/programminghorror
So the security question is saved like a password, but the actual password saved as a plain text?2yr ⋅ CreativeArtie ⋅ r/programminghorror
My least proud piece of code - reverse geocoding with a bunch of conditions1yr ⋅ muccy_ ⋅ r/programminghorror
GitHub Copilot, the technology that will replace human programmers. Also GitHub Copilot...2yr ⋅ humanbeast7 ⋅ r/programminghorror
A 1000+ lines abomination of a file created by a junior which I now have to refactor 💀2mo ⋅ No_Engineering8529 ⋅ r/programminghorror
My Tic Tac Toe game for Android from 2011. The funniest part of this is that the game was downloaded over 20k times when I published it.4yr ⋅ paul_s0 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Almost named variable final_solution in my highschool programming class6mo ⋅ Midget_Porn_Judge ⋅ r/programminghorror
This massive 500+ line SQL statement has tons of nested expressions, uses a distinct on 200 million row tables, does an index-full-scan 4 times on the same table and returns between 25 and 125 million result rows amongst other things. It takes between 4 and 14 hours to run between each department.4yr ⋅ xFl0w21 ⋅ r/programminghorror
The most upvoted comment picks the next line of code: Day 12. div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/div1yr ⋅ lukaskuko ⋅ r/programminghorror
my school makes us use this app that's barely holding on by a thread3yr ⋅ KCGD_r ⋅ r/programminghorror
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.1mo ⋅ chaines51 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Google Script I wrote by hand 7 years ago to sort slack email notifications.1yr ⋅ BluudLust ⋅ r/programminghorror
The most upvoted comment picks the next line of code: Day 14. what the heck?1yr ⋅ _DaCoolOne_ ⋅ r/programminghorror
Checked IndiaPost source after simple POST form kept freezing the browser2yr ⋅ Flashpath ⋅ r/programminghorror
Wanna lowercase a string reliably? Gotta convert encodings first. Also, doing that is deprecated, so... good luck lol!1yr ⋅ ArdiMaster ⋅ r/programminghorror
When you only have a single struct, but want a pointer to another struct, which contains the first struct. The Linux Kernel is definitely an experience.11mo ⋅ Naitsab_33 ⋅ r/programminghorror
This week in API hacks - why make one request when you can make three?1yr ⋅ annoyed_freelancer ⋅ r/programminghorror
When you have to write some JS, but don't know how to include external files1yr ⋅ justhanginfromacloud ⋅ r/programminghorror
I've become completely desperate to fix this small native iOS bug in my Xamarin application that I have been stuck on for over a month. I decided to offer a freelancer $100 just to fix the one crash. He sends me back project files with no changes.3yr ⋅ AcePilot10 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Was looking at some old code I wrote and found this descriptive comment2yr ⋅ MrManBLC ⋅ r/programminghorror
I'm making a sudoku solver and I've managed to create some beautiful working spaghetti2yr ⋅ matbiz01 ⋅ r/programminghorror
i'll just put the theme preview in this component, it's probably fine, i said. it shouldn't be that big, i said.1yr ⋅ alexhmc ⋅ r/programminghorror
Did you know using weird unicode characters can displace your code?3yr ⋅ zerik100 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Inherited this website today. Nearly EVERY page looks like this. Need I say more?1yr ⋅ Pool-LAN ⋅ r/programminghorror
The best and worst part of being able to create functions from operators2yr ⋅ TroubleTruffle9912 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Ah yes, making an async call to an API in a setter function.1yr ⋅ DoubleSentinel ⋅ r/programminghorror
My first task as an intern is to review and fix the code of the main application used by my company. Here's a piece of code I came across by reading all this mess...5yr ⋅ MainSWish ⋅ r/programminghorror
I heard you like getters/setters, so I put a getter/setter in your getter1yr ⋅ SendMeOrangeLetters ⋅ r/programminghorror
Got another one of those „how to do basic things complicated“ at the university programming course4yr ⋅ theannomc1 ⋅ r/programminghorror
How my professor formats his code (and base classes for our assignments)2yr ⋅ GreenDave113 ⋅ r/programminghorror
POV: your task is to prevent students from making a printable copy of the online quiz3yr ⋅ gergoking ⋅ r/programminghorror
Govt website froze so decided to snoop around, found this horror instead.4yr ⋅ kunal70006 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Refactoring my old code and I'm finding literally all of the code smells that I've worked hard to unlearn.2yr ⋅ Matty_B97 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Using a char array to store characters of numbers is not one of my brighter moments3yr ⋅ Mike_Oxlong25 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Does anyone have a good spell that can summon the demon who wrote this?2yr ⋅ henkdepotvjis ⋅ r/programminghorror
I was asked to look into a possible data breach on a very old website. This was the SQL injection protection...2yr ⋅ TheUnawareJersey ⋅ r/programminghorror
Printing items from dictionaries, where sometimes the values in the dictionaries themselves are dictionaries, recurring 3 times. It works I guess1yr ⋅ redsan17 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Seen in a derivatives trading system. Multiplying an enum? Why not? If Low x High = Low, does that mean High = Low/Low = 1?2wk ⋅ sonthonaxrk ⋅ r/programminghorror
I wish I had half the determination this gamedev had (600 lines of this)9mo ⋅ ishiz ⋅ r/programminghorror
Real production code. The only question I have (serioius) - how could even this type of code emerge? I cannot even imagine the circumstances under which the code was written5mo ⋅ STEIN197 ⋅ r/programminghorror
Just a snippet of my global git config file. . . Thought you guys might appreciate. Theres more. . . i add an alias every time i typo 'status' in a new way.2yr ⋅ The_Slad ⋅ r/programminghorror
Homepage of the Aussie government, >1MB of code, JS blocking interaction until completely loaded, super slow loading for anyone outside of 'straya because, well, 'straya 🙄1yr ⋅ deceze ⋅ r/programminghorror
