#CodeSmell is too humane a term to be applied to the change in signature of a code base when an in-tool AI agent fixes bugs introduced with a different model behind a different AI agent.
What are we calling this generative entropy? "Generative Entropy"?

Just published a new #blog article about a code smell that seemed to have no name yet so I gave it one:
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-void-mutator-code-smell-332be36df29d
#codesmell #bestpractice #programming #Medium

#Development #Findings
‘aria-label’ is a letdown · “One in three ‘aria-label’ implementations have likely issues.” https://ilo.im/162zei

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#CodeSmell #AriaLabel #ARIA #Accessibility #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

Code Smell 291 - Mutable Keys

#codesmell #java

https://maximilianocontieri.com/code-smell-291-mutable-keys

Function Properties in Data Classes are Code Smells

#codesmell #dataclass #java

https://marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/function-properties-in-data-classes-are-code-smells/?utm_medium=erik.in&utm_source=mastodon

I have a new theory about Boots’s car crash of a website.

I’ve become somewhat obsessed with the boots.com website and its endlessly hilarious bad front end. My theory in my last post was a bad or underskilled manager. A bully or an idiot or both.

I still think there is some bad management shite going down at boots.com but I have started to wonder if the fault might not be further upon the chain […]

#badCode #bigCompanyFails #Boots #codeSmell #errors #HCLTechnologies #IHaveNotes #IBM #managers #muggles #WebSphereCommerce #wizards #CodingAndDevelopment

New #rstats blog post: "Code Smell: Error Handling Eclipse"

https://www.njtierney.com/post/2023/12/06/long-errors-smell/

Where I discuss a code smell I've found lately, too much input error handling inside a function totally eclipses the intent of the function.

#rse #researchsoftwareengineering #codesmell

A #Discord is a #FOSS #codesmell

#opensource #slack

You know it's about to get rough when the service you're about to work on starts with #region Fields and the #endregion is not even in sight.

#csharp #codesmell

Microservice Anti-Pattern

Nach einigen Beiträgen zu Microservices soll in diesem Beitrag ein wenig über die Schattenseiten der Technologie berichtet werden. Insbesondere über Bad-Smells und Anti-Pattern, den falschen Lösungsansätzen, bei der Entwicklung eigener Microservices.

https://schegge.de/2023/06/microservice-anti-pattern/

#AntiPattern #BestPractices #Java #Pattern #BadSmell #BoundedContext #CodeSmell #Microservice #Monolith

The word "and" in a method name is almost always a "code smell."

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #codeSmell

The system I'm modifying right now has blocks of different types, and one of those types can contain other blocks. As it happens, that block type only ever contained two child blocks.
ALL of the code that needs to recurse down the block tree is written twice:
if (doStuff(stuff, block.children[0])) return true;
if (doStuff(stuff, block.children[1])) return true;

Aargh! (1/2)

#code #codeSmell #whyyyy