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Code Snippet Of the Day (CodeSOD) features interesting and usually incorrect code snippets taken from actual production code in a commercial and/or open source software projects.

May 2026

Over and Under Reaction

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Today's anonymous submitter sends us two blocks. The first is a perfectly normal line of React code:

const [width, setWidth] = useState(false)
10 comments - Last comment @ 2026-05-13

Failing to Fail

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Russell F (previously) sends us a small one today. It's not just a representative line, it's a representative comment. More than that, it's a true confession. Russell wrote some code, you see, and the logic was confusing. So, a co-worker added a comment to explain what the code was doing:

'This is *supposed* to fail. If it fails to fail, it throws a failure message
13 comments - Last comment @ 2026-05-13

Please Find, Rewind

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As previously discussed, C++ took a surprisingly long time to get a "starts with" function for strings. It took even longer to get a function called "contains". In part, that's simply because string::find solves that problem.

Nancy sends us a… different approach to solving this problem.

15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-05-09

Not for Nullthing

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Today's anonymous submitter sends us some code that just makes your mind go… blank when you look at it.

	public static boolean isNull(String value) {
		return StringUtils.isBlank(value);
	}
15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-05-12
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