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The function that should not exist
On code fossils — the small, plausibly-named helpers that are never called and never deleted. Why every codebase accumulates them and what to do about it.
Code, prose, and the aesthetic dimensions of work that is usually treated as merely functional.
On code fossils — the small, plausibly-named helpers that are never called and never deleted. Why every codebase accumulates them and what to do about it.
On code changes as objects that can be graceful or graceless. Clean diffs, noisy diffs, guilty diffs, and why our aesthetic vocabulary for code is so impoverished.
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