this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
887 points (98.5% liked)

Programmer Humor

27933 readers
874 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
anzo@programming.dev
Feyter@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
pylapp@programming.dev
887
My code is self-documenting (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by skepller@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
72 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I used to write it all the steps I thought I’d need as these types of comments, then go back and write the real methods. But I usually replaced the comments with more detailed jsdocs style comments with as much detail about the parameters as returnvalues as possible.

Then I quit web dev and moved to the woods.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah effectively using comments as psuedocode