• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Just say your profanities aloud and don’t let them make it to version control.

    In the first major software system I designed and helped build I was a little too open in my comments. For years after that software had entered sunset I’d still get Slack pings along the lines of: “This looks like a Maximum Derek comment: …” They were all diatribes about whatever was giving me grief when I was writing the code and they would all look perfectly at home in the script for 48 Hours.

    I’m my defense we were working with PHP 5.3 at the time.

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      3 months ago

      I grew up in a bit of a sketchy neighborhood and up until my late 20’s all my jobs were the sort where everybody cursed a lot, plus Finns tend to curse a lot in general.

      I absolutely have not kept my cursing out of repositories, although looking at my last work project which had about 33000 lines all in all (maybe 2/3 written by me) when including comments, I was surprised to find that only 4 had “shit” and 6 had “fuck”. One line in an example & test file had both:

      	zap.NewExample().Sugar().Errorw("welp, shit's fucked",
      		"IsBadRequest", IsBadRequest(err),
      		Field(err))
      

      and then there’s some comments like

      // - turn the unsafe.Pointer into a *[8]byte, allowed due to unsafe pointer fuckery
      
      // FIXME: this is just to make cli tool usage easier. It's a horrible fucking hack and should be
      //  nuked from orbit
      
      // FIXME: get rid of all this gorilla legacy bullshit. Could start by getting rid of the needless
      // Interface type
      
      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I did only more often. Plus it was back when the conventional wisdom was that 50% of source code should be comments. So there was a LOT.

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        3 months ago

        Honestly I would love to work on a codebase full of profanity, let me know I’m not alone in my anger towards an inanimate object

        Also would help make it feel less corporate