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When you look at code you wrote last year (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] Horrabin@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is probably more accurate:

-Who the fuck wrote such a shit!

-WHO???

-...

-Oh... it was me...

[–] fayoh@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Me at a previous workplace.

-This is a piece of shit, who is the code owner of this module.

  • Ah, it's me ("inheriting" code ownership when someone left was common)

  • Who did this change

  • Ah, it was me

  • Surely I just made a minor change to this line here, who wrote the function.

  • it was me, it was me all the way down

Fits the general theme of the thread as it was not giving any trouble for a year before being found.

[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The more frustrated you are when running git blame the more likely the command turns out to be a mirror.

[–] Horrabin@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

This is where the programmer's way to humbleness starts :-D

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Last time that happened to me, it was a mirror, but also not.

I had moved functions from one file to another without changing the contents. As a result, all those lines referred to me.

And since I started thinking, I found this

[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Good link that, I'll have to add those flags to my list of aliases

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 9 months ago

Accurate, except the bottom right panel only happens in very limited circumstances, hardly ever after a year has passed.

Source: I've been writing software since 1983 or so.

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

This is why you're meant to comment your code.

Your code tells you "what", your comments tell you "why".

Here's a good review of comments in the redis codebase: https://antirez.com/news/124

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

*yesterday

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

s/year/week/

[–] stubing@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

testing

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

There’s an exponential amount of time between each panel. 1 hour, 5 hours, 2 days for the answer.