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Priyankism 

In the field of software development, Priyankism is the unfortunately common phenomenon of code that looks sensible at face value, but after close inspection is actually redundant and/or misleading.

The terms originates from mythical developer Priyanka R. who was notorious for sprinkling all the software she touched with this kind of code.
Developer A: "Man, I spent an hour trying to understand what this function actually does, and it turns out it was doing absolutely nothing!"

Developer B: "Tell me about it! That codebase is full of Priyankisms"
Priyankism by cynicalcoder May 24, 2022
Related Words
The name Pisanki comes form the Polish verb pisac.
It means to write on.
It is used in corolation with coloring easter eggs
Busia and Dziadzia are coming over for pisanki
pisanki by Zmuda March 25, 2007