# Droogans/unmaintainable-code

A more maintainable, easier to share version of the infamous http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html

Repository: https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/unmaintainable-code
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-08-02T17:04:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4055, "days_push": 1857, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10213, forks 361 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:39.916450+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, programming-languages
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: humor, satire, anti-patterns, code-quality, java, coding-style

## Member repositories
- Droogans/unmaintainable-code (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:39.916450+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:19:30.387632+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:39.916450+00:00, sha 46ea3bcd6193)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.