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Code Review Horror Stories - SubMain Software

A multi-day or even multi-week code review marathon. Sit through one of those, and you'll never want to see anyone else's code again, yours included.

Worst pull request reviews ever, story time : r/programminghorror

Boss asked me to handle the code submission and review. I posted it. The whole leadership of the server team started screaming bloody murder, ...

Coding Horror Stories: The Decade-Old Monolith That Taught Me ...

Opening the codebase for the first time felt like stepping into an abandoned library — there's a treasure of knowledge, but it's hidden under ...

Plato on LinkedIn: Every engineer has a code review horror story to ...

2. Skipping Code Reviews: Participate actively in code reviews. They are crucial not just for spotting errors but also for learning different ...

Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture - Medium

I've listed below some common unhelpful behaviors people display during code reviews, and some recommendations on how software teams can make their teams more ...

DaedTech Digest: Agile, Code Review Horror Stories, Test Smells

For Submain, I wrote a post called “Code Review Horror Stories.” I'd say this probably speaks for itself. Another one for TechTown called “Unit ...

DevShop Stories #7 - Developer House of Horror Stories Pt. 1

While in the midst of doing the code reviews, we noticed one of the other team's developers had been adding in checks with kind of the, the ...

Coding Horror

a blog by Jeff Atwood on programming and human factors.

Scary Developer Stories to Tell in The Dark - Rollbar

Scary Developer Stories to Tell in The Dark · 1. A Nightmare in Production · 2. "Psycho" · 3. IT Comes at Night · 4. Codebusters · 5. The Haunting of ...

Coding Horror Stories: When Everything Went Wrong - Stackademic

The Power of a Simple Typo · When Copy-Pasting Wreaks Havoc · Disaster Strikes with Infinite Loops · API Rate Limits: The Downfall of Real-Time ...

10 Developer Horror Stories To Keep You Up at Night - Rollbar

10 Developer Horror Stories To Keep You Up at Night · 1. The “Crashing Every Single Computer in the Data Center” Error · 2. The “I Simply Forgot ...

Share your software development horror stories!

Whether it was a lurking semi-colon that snuck in right before a code freeze or an issue that kept rising from the dead, let's talk scary moments that you've ...

Long live Code Reviews! Code Reviews are dead!

Sometimes it's embarassing because of being shamed in front of the entire team in a group review. Sometimes it's disruptive because you can't ...

A Doomed Code Review - nipafx.dev

There are a couple of things you should do to make code reviews successful. Chief among them, keep them brief, short, and focused.

Copy and paste - A programming horror story - James Croft

Without proper code reviews, the 'copy and paste' coding culture is considered okay. Often the people doing this also aren't thinking about the impact of their ...

Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories - PART 2 - Syntax #841

Show Notes · 45:12 You need processes. · 48:42 Ask for help. · 49:44 Dry-run queries + soft delete. · 51:14 Code reviews. Episode #830. · 52:11 ...

How to deal with no code reviews in my new place when I come ...

Can code review be skipped if you have unit tests? But why? The primary role of peer review is not to catch out bugs.

Who's Your Coding Buddy? - Coding Horror

I am continually amazed how much better my code becomes after I've had a peer look at it. I don't mean a formal review in a meeting room, ...

Coding Horrors: The Tales of Codebase Complexity - Digma AI

... code horror story. ... (If you're thinking this whole situation points to major flaws in both the management and the code review processes of that ...

159 - Leveling Up Your Code Reviews from 'Good Enough' to Great

Any kind of maybe fun stories or horror stories that you experienced with code reviews that you can share with us? Adrienne Tacke: Yes. So ...