this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Currently working on projects for a client which is adding what should be a minor feature but it's in a horribly written codebase so there's been lots of "fix this latter" and "Add this back when working".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hard disagree, I savor removing the scaffolding after figuring out a hard issue.

Most of the time, it's just a matter of discarding the local git changes anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Or all the random comments like

#Don't change the value of this var because it breaks everything for some unknown reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Me, merging all the commits with name "chore: debug" be like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When you add a few hundred likes of code thinking you have THE solution to your issue, just to realize 90% of the way through it is totally not going to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@gkd @yogthos just make sure to not throw all of it away when you think of that other idea *that will work*. Because you’ll soon realize the first idea actually was the one that’d work.

[–] NuraSideNotes 1 points 2 years ago

I see myself in this and I don’t like it.