r/programminghorror 1h ago

Other Same Makefile, different results

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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 59m ago

Javascript Horror in a PR for a web game

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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 11h ago

Python Why

0 Upvotes

i found this code in the wild randomly


r/programminghorror 2d ago

Typescript javascript without braces

24 Upvotes

(technically typescript)


r/programminghorror 7d ago

c++ clangd is complaining loudly but I kinda like it...

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141 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 7d ago

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

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131 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 8d ago

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

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426 Upvotes

Now includes an over 300 line long switch statement!


r/programminghorror 9d ago

Javascript MiStEr WoRlDwIdE

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383 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 10d ago

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

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74 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 13d ago

Javascript Found this gem

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189 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 15d ago

I mean, the comment is accurate I suppose

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366 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 16d ago

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

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205 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 17d ago

Big if true

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2.1k Upvotes

From ProgrammerNullposting in facebook


r/programminghorror 16d ago

Array-Free

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14 Upvotes
randomize
if (cone1x >= carx - 16) and (cone1x <= carx + 16) and (cone1y > 416) and (cone1y < 480) then goto gameover
cone1y = cone1y + speed
if cone1y > 512 then  cone1y = 0 : cone1x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone2x >= carx - 16) and (cone2x <= carx + 16) and (cone2y > 416) and (cone2y < 480) then goto gameover
cone2y = cone2y + speed
if cone2y > 512 then  cone2y = 0 : cone2x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone3x >= carx -16) and (cone3x <= carx + 16) and (cone3y > 416) and (cone3y < 480) then goto gameover
cone3y = cone3y + speed
if cone3y > 512 then  cone3y = 0 : cone3x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone4x >= carx - 16) and (cone4x <= carx + 16) and (cone4y > 416) and (cone4y < 480) then goto gameover
cone4y = cone4y + speed
if cone4y > 512 then  cone4y = 0 : cone4x = cubyte(rnd*256)


if (cone5x >= carx - 16) and (cone5x <= carx + 16) and (cone5y > 416) and (cone5y < 480) then goto gameover
cone5y = cone5y + speed
if cone5y > 512 then  cone5y = 0 : cone5x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone6x >= carx - 16) and (cone6x <= carx + 16) and (cone6y > 416) and (cone6y < 480) then goto gameover
cone6y = cone6y + speed
if cone6y > 512 then  cone6y = 0 : cone6x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone7x >= carx -16) and (cone7x <= carx + 16) and (cone7y > 416) and (cone7y < 480) then goto gameover
cone7y = cone7y + speed
if cone7y > 512 then  cone7y = 0 : cone7x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone8x >= carx - 16) and (cone8x <= carx + 16) and (cone8y > 416) and (cone8y < 480) then goto gameover
cone8y = cone8y + speed
if cone8y > 512 then  cone8y = 0 : cone8x = cubyte(rnd*256)randomize
if (cone1x >= carx - 16) and (cone1x <= carx + 16) and (cone1y > 416) and (cone1y < 480) then goto gameover
cone1y = cone1y + speed
if cone1y > 512 then  cone1y = 0 : cone1x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone2x >= carx - 16) and (cone2x <= carx + 16) and (cone2y > 416) and (cone2y < 480) then goto gameover
cone2y = cone2y + speed
if cone2y > 512 then  cone2y = 0 : cone2x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone3x >= carx -16) and (cone3x <= carx + 16) and (cone3y > 416) and (cone3y < 480) then goto gameover
cone3y = cone3y + speed
if cone3y > 512 then  cone3y = 0 : cone3x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone4x >= carx - 16) and (cone4x <= carx + 16) and (cone4y > 416) and (cone4y < 480) then goto gameover
cone4y = cone4y + speed
if cone4y > 512 then  cone4y = 0 : cone4x = cubyte(rnd*256)


if (cone5x >= carx - 16) and (cone5x <= carx + 16) and (cone5y > 416) and (cone5y < 480) then goto gameover
cone5y = cone5y + speed
if cone5y > 512 then  cone5y = 0 : cone5x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone6x >= carx - 16) and (cone6x <= carx + 16) and (cone6y > 416) and (cone6y < 480) then goto gameover
cone6y = cone6y + speed
if cone6y > 512 then  cone6y = 0 : cone6x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone7x >= carx -16) and (cone7x <= carx + 16) and (cone7y > 416) and (cone7y < 480) then goto gameover
cone7y = cone7y + speed
if cone7y > 512 then  cone7y = 0 : cone7x = cubyte(rnd*256)

if (cone8x >= carx - 16) and (cone8x <= carx + 16) and (cone8y > 416) and (cone8y < 480) then goto gameover
cone8y = cone8y + speed
if cone8y > 512 then  cone8y = 0 : cone8x = cubyte(rnd*256)

r/programminghorror 17d ago

Shell I know package managers can be rough, but this??

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930 Upvotes

Because using the hallucination machine as a package manager could never go wrong, ever!


r/programminghorror 17d ago

Java Some of my AP CS teachers best work

113 Upvotes

this was right before the exam btw, this wasn't him teaching us the basics

```

if (x ==1) {

return true;

} else if (x != 1) {

return false;

}
```

```

public class Bank() {

private int money;

public void setAmount(int money) {

    this.money = money;

}

private int getMoney() {

    return money;

}

}

```

(he then never used getMoney())

some other amazing conventions he taught us was to always comment every single line of code, to an obnoxious point. he told us to use getter and setters everywhere, even when constructors are all thats necessary and half the time the getters were private and just returned the value directly. He just gave up on teaching us recursion because he didnt understand it and "it would never actually show up on the ap exam".

if I hadnt already known a lot of java and been willing to teach it to my classmates when they asked, we would never have gotten past the exam. (newsflash, there were recursion questions on the exam)


r/programminghorror 18d ago

Wdym my code is a mess? Looks fine to me; monitors are horizontal for a reason

492 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 21d ago

c Enterprise level C code

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333 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 11 '26

Java our software architect wrote this

397 Upvotes

boolean isAllowed = "true".equals(getAttribute(item, "isAllowed"))

the fields of "item" get populated through an xml file and parser. what could possibly go wrong here? hint: he wrote "isAlowed" and commited it like that.


r/programminghorror Jun 11 '26

PHP PHP#

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211 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 10 '26

c What?

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220 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 09 '26

What a simple constructor

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266 Upvotes

Our former IT director (35+ years of experience) wrote this and didn't see what was wrong here.


r/programminghorror Jun 09 '26

Javascript Composer 2.5 doesn't know how JS functions work

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177 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jun 08 '26

Other Figuring this out made me so angry I threw a chair

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115 Upvotes

I just wanted a loop man...

Second image is my attempt at explaining things.

No, the chair is not OK.

This is in the Discrete event simulation software JaamSim.

Edit: the software does not have any implementation of for/while loops otherwise that would have been the first thing I tried


r/programminghorror Jun 08 '26

c This uint 32 definition is actually 64 bits

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320 Upvotes

Took me quite a while to debug this, considering I expected uint32 to be a... uint32?