i have codes that are like 70-90% finished bc i'll literally forget what i was aiming for while coding it lmao. like it strays so far from the initial idea that 3 hrs in, i step back and im like :~) wait what is this supposed to be b/c i might be going for a thread template and it's now a tracker

sometimes i scrape and reuse the code so i guess something actually does come out of it

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listen this is probably more of a coding peeve than a coding confession, but i feel a minor burst of irritation every time i'm browsing a site with a beautiful skin that's too wide for my computer screen or just barely fits on it

i know wider skins / skins that take up the bulk of the screen / skins with heftier sidebars are the hot thing now, but please y'all, i'm begging you to remember not everyone runs with gigantic screens ;;;;;;;;;;

self-doubt reared its ugly head in and that kind of killed progress a little bit(read: completely) on the skin i'm working on. like, i don't have a specific goal in mind for it anyway, so it's like... eh... what am i doing this/suffering for... i'll probably get through this after slacking for like 1 month maybe

but yes more of a peeve: vision problems adding extra(or non-existent) paddings that i don't notice until much later, but when i do i have to squint super hard or zoom in with Paint or smtg to see if it's really there. or 1 line of code becoming 2. glasses don't help so... aaa h3lp why am i in this field

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I've been working on updating an old site. The original author was new to programming at the time (10 - 15 years ago) and it's a huge messy nest of PHP.

Logic is messy and inconsistent. He repeats the same things over and over and ov—and there are no global constants, so he references the same files using different paths.

All of his page routing is switch statements, which would be fine if he had used clear variable names for the pages??? Instead of numbers. Ah, yes, the "Account" page, number 38. I knew that.

There are multitudes of duplicate files, like conn.php and conn2.php, or big-long-fucking-file-name.php and big-long-fucking-file-name-2.php.bak

Folders are named like "mis," "ply," and "glb"...

The most offensive to me, stupidly, is how he's mixed tabs and spaces.

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`conn` must be short for `conniption` 🙃

i hope you're getting paid out the wazoo for this!

elli i cringed while reading your post a few days back but it turns out... my sprint for my team this week is to fix exactly that...

broken php pages like view1.php, view3.php all the way until 7 i think?? granted it was built back in the day when tables were the best way for you to make a decent website(so says the HoD) but.

all the styles are inline.

there are no indents.

crai.

Noooo!! I'm so sorry. This is literally a nightmare.

siel I don't get paid much for the work I do for this guy — $14/hr. It's just something I do on the side to fuel my coffee problem lol

The basic Web Dev class I took makes editing templates so much faster. Looks like I did learn something.

Still can't create shit from scratch LOl.

finding out jcink's adding in the ability to export custom profile field values in the near future just made me swoon

imagine how much easier it'll be installing skins now that you won't have to deal with the walkthrough + potential reorganizing from that :eyes:

Less of a confession and more a question for all the coders out there. Why do most of you use such small font sizes for your templates? Like I've noticed that a lot of them have 9px or even 10px for the posting text. It's weird to me, because 11px seems like the best size for things to be readable. Maybe 10px depending on the font being used. Is it just an aesthetics thing?