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netgoat reverse proxy – "seriously messed up code"

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https://lemmy.world/u/dont posted on Mar 17, 2026 08:27

🤣 sure, I’ll use a reverse proxy / waf that has a release change log “I don’t remember lol” (Yes, it’s in alpha, but still…)

Is anyone here using it? Are you scared?

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https://mnstdn.monster/users/Andrew posted on Mar 17, 2026 09:28
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I avoid any software with emojis throughout the readme... Screams vibe coded! And for a reverse proxy?? 😂

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https://palaver.p3x.de/u/hendrik posted on Mar 17, 2026 09:33
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After a few “Delete junk” commits, “Broken”, “PATCH: Hope this fixes it”, and “Basic Reverse-Proxy”, it’s now at version 1.0.1-alpha.1.
Don’t know what they did to Git. But their “minor commit” touches almost the entire code in their repo.

100% wouldn’t use it.

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https://leminal.space/u/AllNewTypeFace posted on Mar 17, 2026 09:59
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Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software

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https://lemmy.world/u/warmaster posted on Mar 17, 2026 10:33
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More like bath salts

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https://lemmy.world/u/jj4211 posted on Mar 17, 2026 10:56
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Well, vibe coding should be roughly able to do a reverse proxy, there’s just so many out there for it to rip off.

Vibe coders love generating stuff that already exists for no reason, because it sometimes can kind of work.

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https://pawb.social/u/savvywolf posted on Mar 17, 2026 11:29
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Is this an allegedly “high performance” reverse proxy written in NodeJS? Uh… Yeah, good luck with that.

Also, how do they intend to protect against DDos attacks in a self-hosted environment with (presumably) a limited number of devices?

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https://lemmy.world/u/dont posted on Mar 17, 2026 12:04
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To be fair, the proxy engine is supposedly written in go, not in nodejs, but yeah, the ddos defense most likely is wishful thinking…

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https://lemmy.world/u/x00z posted on Mar 17, 2026 12:09
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It was a “minor commit” because it was only a minor prompt.

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https://lemmy.world/u/jj4211 posted on Mar 17, 2026 14:59
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Of course I also see that the go spawns python and does stuff with that…

And there’s lots of other dubious issues that look like an odd mismash of intro level programming stuff with unfortunate performance implications, and a very strong vibe code smell, though the commit interval is a bit larger than I would have presumed with vibe coding, but the volume of changes seem AI sloppy…

Well, broadly it looks like slop, probably AI slop, but either way I wouldn’t go anywhere near this project…

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https://lemmy.self-hosted.site/u/Smash posted on Mar 17, 2026 20:22
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Probably made my a minor too

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https://lemmy.world/u/Cloudstash posted on Mar 18, 2026 15:26
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Pretty much always overratee if it happens on the same line. Just change methods and fk it up.

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https://feddit.org/u/prenatal_confusion posted on Mar 18, 2026 19:41
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YouTube thumbnails, headlines and GitHub readmes are either Emoji free or to be avoided.

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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/paris posted on Mar 18, 2026 20:02
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Almost every single deployment has failed lmao

https://github.com/netgoat-xyz/netgoat/deployments

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https://lemmy.world/u/dont posted on Mar 19, 2026 06:15
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Thanks for the analysis; I had also seen the API keys 🤣 “avaliable”

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