Recent Coded Smorgasbord

Inspired by the Pop-up Potpourri, the examples presented here aren't necessarily "bad" code nor do they imply the miserable failure that we're all used to reading here. The examples are more-or-less fun snippets of code like ones that we've all written at one time or another.

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High Strung

by Remy Porter in Coded Smorgasbord on 2025-09-25

Most languages these days have some variation of "is string null or empty" as a convenience function. Certainly, C#, the language we're looking at today does. Let's look at a few example of how this can go wrong, from different developers.

We start with an example from Jason, which is useless, but not a true WTF:

24 comments - Last comment @ 2025-10-03

Basically, a Smorgasbord

by Remy Porter in Coded Smorgasbord on 2025-09-04

It's that time to take a look at a few short snippets.

Boolean values can hold true or false. But is that truly self documenting? I think we need clearer variable names for this. Certainly, the snippet Nonymous found thinks so:

29 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-16

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