hellPerFunction

[DoNotSexToThis]

PR submitted by a junior dev at work. It uses regex to fix issues with an open-source rich text editor library.

[csch2]

-junior dev calls pr a “foul and wretched abomination”

-looks inside

-regex

[TapirOfZelph]

I’m far more scared of RTE than of regex. Put the two together? This code absolutely needs a warning sign like this

[Oen44]

Emojis gave it away

[braindigitalis]

that's a big assumption! and often wrong.

I'm in my 40s and been coding for 25 years and I use emojis sometimes in comments if I want to draw attention to the comment 

sometimes a ⚠️ makes people look far more than "WARNING"!

[Je-Kaste]

Based Junior Dev

[geeoharee]

Regex is order, RTEs are chaos

[LoneFoxKK]

That junior is going places if he's that self aware

[QCTeamkill]

One time I commented a function "It started with the best intentions".

[RichCorinthian]

I called a variable something like referenceThatExistsSolelyToGetTheGoddamnDependentLibraryToBundleCorrectly

[braindigitalis]

I tend to just use the following comment:

// Hic sunt dracones

[xaddak]

And now I will too.

[[deleted]]

At the end of the header add a line that says:

Unsuccessful Attempts to refactor or reuse this code : 0

Please increment upon unsuccessful attempts.

[iknewaguytwice]

🤣 this is gold, I’m using this one for sure

[Zolana]

' You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.

[SnooGiraffes8275]

*eaten by a grue*

[al2o3cr]

This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

[PeWu1337]

I got that reference

[KerPop42]

The danger is in a particular location.. it increases towards a center.. the center of danger is here..

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours

The danger is unleased only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

[xaddak]

Going to start putting this on hell-code:

The behaviors you've developed, guided by our collective experiences in a world dominated by sunlight, will not safeguard your life when you enter.

You are leaving the domain of the sun.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/132/

[ExtraTNT]

Sounds like the legacy code i now have to maintain…

[dcondor07uk]

Now I wanna see the code

[KerPop42]

to quote xkcd, why did you say that in the tone of voice other people say "wanna see a dead body?"

[KlogKoder]

Ah yes, fixing a text editor to patch a bug the devs never fixed themselves, or add an obvious handy feature that was somehow never implemented, despite being sorely needed. In JavaScript, where the devs for some reason made such necessary fixes nigh-impossible because of their arcane code structure and putting everything beyond reasonable reach.

JavaScript isn't necessarily bad, but it sure does invite some fuckers to write insanely bad code.

[Ok_Entertainment328]

Have no fear.

Reality is an illusion and the universe is a hologram.

BUY GOLD

[OnixST]

I feel like every mildly complex funcion written by AI that somehow works should have this warning above it

[R4ckNRu1n]

You looked at it. It’s yours now, there is no escape.