cowboy code

A term for a coding project where there is no design, no unit testing, no fancy buttons, just working code. It might be a little rough around the edges, but it gets the job done. Prevalent in a hackathon setting, for small idie projects, or programmers who couldn't give a fuck.

Tech Bro1: How did you make that website over the weekend?

Tech Bro2: It's all cowboy code.

by Turkey_Lurkey January 28, 2025

back to coding

The last thing Dream said in his iconic Detective Dream stream, where he goes over drama involving Tommyinnit, Ludwig, and many more. Streamers and other creators have started using this as a way of ending stream and saying goodbye, because it is really cringe.

Tommyinnit: But that's all from me. Anyways, back to coding.

by RobloxKing443 January 24, 2025

hobo code

Alternative words or phrases used by content creators to avoid having their accounts deleted from big tech platforms. A form of self censorship.

Originally, signs or symbols left around towns or in the countryside by hobos to send messages or warnings to other hobos.

In order to avoid the censorship algorithm I had to speak in hobo code.

by ecophelia January 31, 2021

Coding

Also See: StackOverFlow.

Goddamnit, Henry is coding again.

by disturb May 28, 2021

vibe coding

Letting an AI agent make all the decisions about implementation and code execution given a light description of intent from a user.

AI refused to write more than 800 lines of code, got to this point after just 1h of vibe coding. It is really killing the vibe...

by Ceserik March 14, 2025

Bar code

Is that how you think a bar code works? What do you think a bar code does?

Hym "A bar code necessarily aligns with a SPECIFIC ITEM. If you pick up a can of diet Coke... And scan the bar code... And what comes up on the register is, instead, can of beans then the bar code is USELESS. Therefore, the problem (for you) is not that you do not have the bar code but, rather, the bar code is absolutely meaning TO YOU because you are not that which aligns with the bar code. And... I am.:

by Hym Iam September 11, 2025

Code Ninja

A mercenary-level developer that produces obfuscated code that fullfills the case study, thus bein able to charge his freelance honoraries faster than a Ninja can draw a Shuriken from his robe.
His obfuscation stems not from bad faith, but merely from getting results as fast as possible; and mainly because, like the proverbial Ninja, he claims to be a Black Belt master of any weapon (language) he gets his hand on.
"Jack of All Trades, Master of None" is a phrase of wisdom he disdains with a sense of pride.

This dude is a Code Ninja, no matter in which language is the thing written in. Code's a bit messy, but the customer got his results rather quickly.

by alejandrob April 13, 2018