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		clnq on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cut the Cutesy Errors The disease is also infecting the backend and codebases themselves. It’s always fun to maintain someone’s code with comments like “//todo make the magic happen” when they’ve left the company. Not everything in life is made better by humor. It is fine to take some things seriously.

parentheses on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

I feel like that’s just a-holery that should never have made it through PRs. It’s like writing “I bet you didn’t read this” in your high school book report.

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