Refactoring

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Refactoring articles

5 articles from 2022 show all

September 2022

If it works together, it lives together

Wherein I use LEGO to talk about organizing your code for ease of use

Why others' code is hard to navigate

Some people like to organize code in files and folders and neat categories. Others love search. When they work together, that's the challenge.

July 2022

You don't *have to* build it sloppy to go fast

My favorite mistake to make when I'm in a hurry is to think that I _have to_ build new features the sloppiest way possible. Find the quick fix and move on. But that's not true.

June 2022

Coding forces you to understand the problem

Programming translates fuzzy understanding into exacting specifications. That鈥檚 why it鈥檚 hard. The Illusion of Explanatory Depth reigns supreme

April 2022

Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes

Do you review refactoring pull requests differently than you do others? An empirical study of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform, says that you do and finds 6 common criteria.