JavaScript Merch

This feels so true sometimes! You make the simplest UI imaginable and people will still get it confused. Much respect to UX designers! 🤙

An oldie but a goodie. Keeping in mind the principle that all code you wrote more than two weeks ago might as well have been written by somebody else, the violent psychopath might be YOU.
What's the worst code you've ever had to maintain?
For me it was this legacy Angular 1/C # web app at a large agricultural company (I won't say the name but you've definitely heard of it). The build process took 10 minutes and it was slow, buggy, and brittle. There was no consistent style, code review process, or unit tests, and it was a mixture of half-hearted Typescript and vanilla JavaScript. Luckily after a few months we really put our heads down to focus less on new features and more on code quality. We added more unit tests, began using Prettier for styling consistency, and fixed our slow build process. Y'all if you're in this situation now, speak to your manager about getting these things fixed as soon as possible. It's such a worthwhile investment because it means happy developers who can focus on the things that matter. 🔥
Have a great day, and happy coding!