snoofle

After surviving 35 years, dozens of languages, hundreds of projects, thousands of meetings and millions of LOC, I now teach the basics to the computer-phobic

Dec 2019

Best of 2019: Temporal Obfuscation

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It's the holiday season, and we use this opportunity to take a week and reflect on the best stories of the year. Here, we reach back to January for a tale of variable names and convention. --Remy

We've all been inflicted with completely overdesigned overly generalized systems created by architects managers who didn't know how to scope things, or when to stop.

We've all encountered premature optimization, and the subtle horrors that can spawn therefrom.