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Even my own code sometimes. (lemmy.world)
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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 197 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

god, this code is awful. Who wrote this?

git blame

Oh

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 56 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I love that they called it "blame" lol. They knew what it would be used for.

[–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago

Subversion tried to call it "annotate", but that didn't stick ;)

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 15 points 11 hours ago

Not sure if was there from the beginning but it was originally developed by Linus Torvalds and he can be quite harsh to the Linux contributors.

[–] ati@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago

Isn't it alias for git praise?

[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 90 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Been writing the same software for 20+ years now, don't even need git blame to figure out what asshole wrote this shit.

[–] SystemDisc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 12 hours ago

Why is it always me? Haha

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Yup there are certain patterns that I can just tell

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Past me was a moron sometimes.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Still am. But I used to too

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That exact chain of events happened to me at my last job and I audibly laughed realising it was my own code. To my own credit though, it was a file I had written four years prior which at that point was more than half my whole career in the past

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago

If you aren’t ashamed of your work a year ago, you’re stagnating!

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 18 points 13 hours ago

Sometimes you don't even recognize your own trash, 6 weeks later.

[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 12 hours ago

These days I see so much AI slop that my reaction when I see code I hand-wrote myself is "hey, that's pretty good".

My team's code is great, but we use a lot of shared code written by other teams, with varying levels of quality.

[–] Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, admitting you have a problem is the first step to a solution…

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, man. Can you tell what the second step is? I'd really like to learn that.

[–] Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip 7 points 13 hours ago

Working to fix it… (which of course varies wildly based on the problem!)

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Not if the author was your boss.

[–] JATothrim_v2@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I have lately jokingly guessed when I see the particular style and confusion: it's you isn't it? And so far I have been right. The particular author's magic has expired, and I see the same fault replicated everywhere he has been.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

One of my coworkers is fond of using ternary expressions instead of "if" blocks. Even ones without an "else". So I see things like:

condition ? someVar = "blah" : null;

or

condition ? doSomething() : null

Which should both just use "if" statements. Or my favorite:

condition ? someVar = "foo" : someVar = "bar"

which should really be

someVar = condition ? "foo" : "bar"

[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

UUUuuuuuh, I am not a programmer (you're going to say "thank god"), but...

I sometimes even chain them. You can put yet another ternary operator in the else and keep going. You know, else-if.
So anyway, I can get ternary operators spanning 2 - 3 lines.
Oh, I also often have issues thinking of proper loops, so you'd see a few terribly used goto statements.

Although I do remove ones that are obvious brain fart.
For example, quite obvious

void example(bool true_or_false){
    if(true_or_false){
        //code if true
    }
    else{
        //code if false
    }
    //other code
}

Well, I've already had my brain goof up even that once or twice. "How the fuck", you're asking?

void example(bool true_or_false){
    if(true_or_false){
        goto if_true;
    }
    //code if false
    goto end_false_if;
if_true:
    //code if true
end_false_if:
    //other code
}

The brain-fart if-else.

[–] lukstru@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

You need another goto end right before the end_false_if:, otherwise the false code will always run

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Dear lord lmao

[–] dbx12@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The last thing, that would be a "request changes" for me.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

I haven't seen him do it lately in any code I've reviewed but I do change it whenever I see it if I'm doing work nearby lol