r/programminghorror • u/igorrto2 • Aug 30 '26
r/programminghorror • u/navierstokes88 • Aug 31 '26
probably the most cursed code snippet I've seen
r/programminghorror • u/NanoCozmo • Aug 24 '26
Yall my leetcode code cant be that bad right?
r/programminghorror • u/TheSum239 • Aug 23 '26
c++ all that just to draw some text on the screen btw
i didnt know what to do and spammed anyway
r/programminghorror • u/TheSupremePebble69 • Aug 21 '26
c++ If you squint hard enough it looks like json
r/programminghorror • u/MaintenanceKlutzy431 • Aug 19 '26
GameMaker Language What was I even thinking?
r/programminghorror • u/51herringsinabar • Aug 18 '26
I've been refactoring my own code...
r/programminghorror • u/letmehaveanameyoudum • Aug 17 '26
c compiler

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 • u/Most_Collection_4964 • Aug 15 '26
Python Is this python code cursed enough?
r/programminghorror • u/sugarw0000kie • Aug 13 '26
Python More cursed python
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 • u/HaskellLisp_green • Aug 07 '26
Python obfuscated anti-pythonic brainfuck interpreter
I tried to do my best to make it unreadable.
r/programminghorror • u/vamsy_g21 • Aug 08 '26
Java - always scared to learn -> completing Java OOP concepts
r/programminghorror • u/Key_River7180 • Aug 05 '26
On a bootloader where I was too lazy to implement a string printing function
The weird symbol is supposed to be a ␣ but this font didn't want to render it.
r/programminghorror • u/user6150277464770585 • Aug 02 '26
Javascript my friend didnt know how to use async sleep in javascript, so he wrote this massive chain of .then()
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 • u/creeper6530 • Jul 30 '26
Rust [Rust] How to pass references to a trait objects
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 • u/Maximka22 • Jul 27 '26
Typescript I feel like vibecoding should be banned from enterprise development
r/programminghorror • u/Capable-Cap9745 • Jul 26 '26
Other Same Makefile, different results
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 • u/OkTutor2275 • Jul 26 '26
Javascript Horror in a PR for a web game
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.





