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Programming Horror is where developers come together to revel in the idiocy of our peers.
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foo = 'bar'
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- talesfromtechsupport - Not everything that involves a computer is a programming horror story. For IT support related submissions, head on over here.
- talesfromdesigners - For our more artistically inclined brothers and sisters.
- badcode - When you don't have a story to go along with the horrible, horrible code.
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/r/programminghorror
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The best string replace on the PLANET!
Recently I've been exploring js proxies and I've been looking for a good excuse to explore tag functions. So I wrote this monstrosity to play with them together:
const wordReplacer = (word) => (strings, ...values) => {
return strings.join(word)
}
const proxyHandler = {
get(_, prop) {
return wordReplacer(prop)
},
};
const replaceWith = new Proxy({}, proxyHandler);
const Aaaah = replaceWith['Aaaah!']
const replaced = Aaaah`"${'Hello'}" said Bob to Alice.`
console.log(replaced) // "Aaaah!" said Bob to Alice.https://gist.github.com/mike-pete/5dc3b185a909d2a1068bc50ea5698180
It feels like it'd fit in nicely with the other code in this sub lol
fr fr though proxies are pretty neat. I recently used them to build a typesafe RPC library for iframes. I you haven't used them before, definitely give them a try!
17:44 UTC
Hum, yeah, that's totally correct.
03:51 UTC
THIS IS SOME NIGHTMARE FUEL
10:30 UTC
Reddit production deployment crashed CET 25 4 '24 19:15 lasted for 2 hours
13:58 UTC
Let me share my idgaf what happens to my db insert function.
08:01 UTC
took me oddly long to realize what was causing the SIGFPE exit code
08:09 UTC
Trying to learn syntactic sugar for cleaner code. Isn't this example plainly stupid since the expression already returns a boolean?
17:57 UTC
Is the the Holy ASM our lord Terry A. Davis warned us about?
02:47 UTC
I made a python program for our school calculator for learning math (it makes problems for you to solve). Someone complained that it was a kilobyte in size (our calculators dont have much storage), so i made it exactly 300 bytes in size. This is the result:
15:35 UTC
I just realised that python @decorators can be lambda functions
16:48 UTC
19:19 UTC
Block I cleaned long ago
19:32 UTC
Apparently `settings` has 3 `t`s
12:25 UTC
When the story says “Chang labels to lowercase”
And you’re feeling a little trollsy
05:13 UTC
found it in a fireship video
21:56 UTC
JSON network data deserialization
18:07 UTC
A new language where programs consist of one big data structure
18:00 UTC
Just learned how to add numbers, how am I doing??
15:56 UTC
Source code from Balatro
14:58 UTC
Can't you just do output[CONTROL_BYTE_ADDR] = controlByte ?
byte[] controlByteArr = new byte[] { controlByte };
System.arraycopy(controlByteArr, 0, output, CONTROL_BYTE_ADDR, controlByteArr.length);11:25 UTC
Who needs an obfuscator when you have javascript and time to kill?
16:51 UTC
Incredible
23:03 UTC
Want to start making a website!
Hi, I used to code a bit 1-2 years ago, but I recently got back into it a few months ago. Can someone help me get started maybe start making an application with someone. Ill learn everything i need fast. DM
18:30 UTC
Anyway so what's a "public variable" again?
05:49 UTC
I hope I didn't mess up these values
02:55 UTC
Let's just ignore, that the line in the config is a comment
16:21 UTC
Not JSON
I'm to blame for this one. You might be wondering what is wrong with this.
If you use json you might realize the directory back slashes aren't escaped.
On the JSON page it claims their strings are like C string and Java strings.
That's a lie. I can store directories in C string and it doesn't require escaping characters.
I really didn't want to deal with writing functions to escape everything and the later undo that.
So my solution is Not JSON or njsn. I get why it is there it makes full sense for it to exist with js.
So why is this a programming horror.
Well some poor person down the road is going to open this file and think it is json because he didn't read the documentation first.
23:49 UTC
one more underscore
23:22 UTC