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Droogans/unmaintainable-code resource

A more maintainable, easier to share version of the infamous http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4055
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1857
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

10213 stars · 361 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A satirical guide on how to write unmaintainable code, adapted from Roedy Green's infamous essay. It humorously catalogs anti-patterns and bad practices to teach developers what to avoid.

Use cases

  • learn what coding practices make code hard to maintain
  • find examples of anti-patterns to avoid in code reviews
  • share a humorous take on bad programming habits with a team
  • teach junior developers about naming and convention pitfalls
  • understand why conventions matter in software maintenance

When to choose

  • you want a humorous but educational resource on code maintainability
  • you are teaching or onboarding developers about anti-patterns
  • you need examples of deliberately bad practices to contrast with good ones

When to avoid

  • you need actionable tooling or linters to enforce code quality
  • you want a serious, formal software engineering textbook
  • you need language-specific style guides with concrete rules

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

documentation developer-tools developer-tools tutorials programming-languages cross-platform humor satire anti-patterns code-quality java coding-style

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Droogans/unmaintainable-codemain32

For agents

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