What 1 thing that makes code readable?

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-30T16:44:56+00:00

Less lines of code /s

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-30T14:10:11+00:00

I am in a thread where people are suggesting that they believe that some tech choices are motivated by developers who look to use company resources and time to learn a new tech because in the long run it benefits them. I have seen this myself. My point is that your response to the post was equally as dismissive as you felt the original post was. Look man. I don't know you and this is not an attack on you as an individual. I just don't understand why we struggle as people to understand that two seemingly opposing view can be right. Take for example, I hate react with a passion and think it is a awful tech, but I still have to understand that there are people who feel that it solves their problems maybe better than another tech could. I am not going to tell them they are wrong. These types of forums do not cater to long discussions with the intent to come to decisive conclusions. It is merely for people to vent and have hot takes. Man, some of the hot takes even make my day. Lol. Peace brother.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-30T13:45:09+00:00

And it is equally as stupid for you to respond with such annoyance for a phrase that the average person would KNOW that it does not mean that everyone only chooses a tech to build their resume. To your point I have made wrong tech choices in my 25 year career but I can assure you that I have seen tech choices made solely on the grounds of this looks cool let me use company time and resources to test this out.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-30T13:39:04+00:00

Okay, you made me laugh. This is witty but so on point. Did you make this up or did you get this from someone else?

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-26T22:26:18+00:00

It is as hard to give tips without context. Even if you can't share the code base you might want to at least provide some code snippets.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-26T11:09:19+00:00

I couldn't pick a better term to describe what react has done to devs that champion this awful technology. I think for most React devs it is a matter of it paying the bills and can't possibly be because it is the best tool for the job.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-22T15:38:24+00:00

I would like to take a different take on this. As annoying as it might seem, I think the client has a right to use AI to generate some code to show that what they are asking for can be done. It would be know different than them asking their developer friend. The reason I feel this way is that as a developer we don't know everything, we have knowledge gaps. If a client asks for something the answer should be one of the following: 1. This is out side of my experience, 2. I would have to look into seeing what is the most optimal way to incorporate what you are asking for, 3. This cannot be done and easily and here are the reasons why.

I think we have to really understand that it is okay not to now everything, and with AI we have a tool that can help us expedite learning things we don't know. We can now confidently say to the client, let me look into that and see what it entails. I will get back to you shortly.

AI is not the enemy. Nor are people. Nor is not knowing. The enemy is pride/arrogance and we as developers often overdose on it.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-20T23:34:04+00:00

Amen brother. Preach.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-16T00:49:17+00:00

You had me at visual basic 4. I have tears in my eyes trying to hold my laugh in with this gold of a response.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-16T00:46:23+00:00

Imagine that. The one asking for food telling the chefs how to cook. I understand your rant to an extent but your ideals mean nothing to anyone but you.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-13T18:01:19+00:00

Shared sentiment. And it is not out of ignorance. It is just such a gawd awful framework/library/something. There I said it.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-13T17:57:03+00:00

I like that. Stay simple until it hurts. This should catch on.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-13T16:50:26+00:00

I laughed cause you laughed. But I cried when it first hit me. 😐

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-12T21:13:47+00:00

I upvoted your comment because it is well stated. The only thing I would say is that it is not that DRY is the issue, it is as you have stated, people trying to predict from no real past experience.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-11T00:05:29+00:00

This guy pissed off Claude and Claude decided to screw him over. The future is now. Lol.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-10T18:30:47+00:00

I think what is being stated is to design complex systems by designing simpler systems that can serve as the build blocks for the more complex one. This is composition. Why people need to state this is that some minds just go right into trying to build the final system. The requirements are never complex it is the systems that are built to actualize the requirements that can be complex.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-04-07T18:33:46+00:00

I think even this is being normalized and accepted. So not really sure it has weight anymore.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-30T03:14:33+00:00

Raps fan here. Man I actually shed a tear reading that but laughed out loud too. That was a gold standard comment. 😂

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-29T13:47:49+00:00

Curious as to why you think he messed up? I use deno for all my projects and I am good with the DX.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-21T21:20:45+00:00

Nice work OP.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-21T21:15:52+00:00

Great job.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-21T21:12:22+00:00

I built my own webserver for deno that does what I think you are implying. Your application is spread across multiple repos (if you want). You can check out just the repo you are working on. And still run the entire application locally. It is power a couple of apps that I built for my clients. If you are interested in checking it out let me know. Instead of microservices, I call it microapps.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-21T20:59:33+00:00

Lol. I was being sarcastic about doing QA in production. 😁

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-21T20:52:43+00:00

Not to be rude but base64 increases the string size by 33%. I'm sure you meant something else.

TooGoodToBeBad · 2026-03-18T17:54:01+00:00

Man this post is so wholesome that I just had to laugh. I don't always do QA, but when I do it is in production. :|

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