What are your worst coding habits?

Is it bad commit messages, getting distracted by social media, commenting out tests?

Let’s hear it all.

Comments

[Karl N. Redman]

porn

however you define porn these days.... it's a distraction. If your porn is hours of netflix, ok. But that is potentially a bad habit. Basically everything that isn't productive is bad -right?

I disagree with this concept. IMHO people need to do various things in order to be productive at 'something'. I think there's some science behind this but meh, look that up on your own time.... I have 1 year to catch up on free BBC Dr. Who episodes via some darkweb torrent somewhere...

[José Devezas]

I still use prints instead of a debugger. It's a lousy habit I've been fighting against for years.

[Ali Murteza Yesil]

Spending too much time trying to optimize hotkeys that I get no time to learn and use them.

[Steffen Pedersen]

My worst coding habit is being too careful and thorough. This will result in me working slowly. It is something that I try to improve every day 😃

[Javier Guerra]

My editor is VIM, and I use arrow keys. Also I don't use autocomplete, I actually hate it. Not sure why. I like to write words my self. Anyways, most of my time coding is hitting arrow keys, not typing actual code.

[Wern Ancheta]

I use jQuery for every single project.

[KL Lawingco]

I work fast when on a team, usually I finish and commits my codes first because I don't want to fix conflicts.

[Amirition]

Not doing that tiny little final test ...

[Daan Wilmer]

• Getting distracted by social media (especially dangerous when my music is on YouTube).
• Writing tests after I wrote the code, when I should've used TDD and wrote the test first.
• Not asking in time (although consciously trying to ask more often does help)
• Being late for the stand-up

[Munaib Hussain]

Spending way to much time naming: directories, files and functions/variables, It's my biggest time sink.

[Terence Lucas Yap]

Not commenting my code regularly. My future self hates me.

[upendramanve]

This is me every time I want to go sudo

suod -s 
bash: suod: command not found

[Suleman Khan]

I watched tutorials and take many programming courses and think that i learn by just watching and practicing with instructor and not building some projects on that technology on my own.

[Meru Patel]

Writing code without learning, reading.

[Den McHenry]

I do a lot of Razor templating (C# with HTML), and when I do something dependent on an external API (e.g., an Instagram widget), I usually wrap it in a try-catch block without handling the exception. I usually just print an HTML comment like, <!— Something went wrong with the Instagram widget. —>.