• PhilipMottershead@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Currently working on projects for a client which is adding what should be a minor feature but it’s in a horribly written codebase so there’s been lots of “fix this latter” and “Add this back when working”.

  • jerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Or all the random comments like

    #Don’t change the value of this var because it breaks everything for some unknown reason

  • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    When you add a few hundred likes of code thinking you have THE solution to your issue, just to realize 90% of the way through it is totally not going to work.

    • ribboo@mastodon.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      @gkd @yogthos just make sure to not throw all of it away when you think of that other idea *that will work*. Because you’ll soon realize the first idea actually was the one that’d work.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Hard disagree, I savor removing the scaffolding after figuring out a hard issue.

    Most of the time, it’s just a matter of discarding the local git changes anyway.