A page dedicated to the tech wizard's most epic failures.
Project: Legacy Code of the Ancients
Mike's first attempt at coding, circa 1995. A 3D text adventure game written in Visual Basic.
Read the full storyThe Great Code Refactor of 2007
Mike spent 3 weeks trying to optimize a single line of code, resulting in a 10k-line monstrosity.
See the commit historyThe Time Mike Thought Java was a Good Idea
A 5-year stretch of writing Java for everything, including his toaster.
Learn more about the Java-enabled Toaster-5000The Dark Ages (2010-2015)
Mike spent 5 years writing PHP for everything, including his blog's comments section.
Read about the comment system of the futureModern Age (2016-Present)
Mike has since recovered, and now only writes code that doesn't make him cry.
See the recovery journey