#code-smell — Public Fediverse posts

This Week in Security: ID Breaches, Code Smell, and Poetic Flows - Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contra... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/10/this-week-in-security-id-breaches-code-smell-and-poetic-flows/ #thisweekinsecurity #hackadaycolumns #idverification #securityhacks #databreach #codesmell #cvss

"Knowledge Smells" An idea I'm kicking around. Does it resonate with anyone else?
#ai #llm #CodeSmell
thomasrigby.com/posts/knowledge-smells-genai-and-subject-matter-expertise/

Just published a new #blog article about a code smell that seemed to have no name yet so I gave it one:
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-void-mutator-code-smell-332be36df29d
#codesmell #bestpractice #programming #Medium

#Development #Findings
‘aria-label’ is a letdown · “One in three ‘aria-label’ implementations have likely issues.” https://ilo.im/162zei

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#CodeSmell #AriaLabel #ARIA #Accessibility #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

Code Smell 291 - Mutable Keys

#codesmell #java

https://maximilianocontieri.com/code-smell-291-mutable-keys

Function Properties in Data Classes are Code Smells

#codesmell #dataclass #java

https://marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/function-properties-in-data-classes-are-code-smells/?utm_medium=erik.in&utm_source=mastodon

I have a new theory about Boots’s car crash of a website.

I’ve become somewhat obsessed with the boots.com website and its endlessly hilarious bad front end. My theory in my last post was a bad or underskilled manager. A bully or an idiot or both.

I still think there is some bad management shite going down at boots.com but I have started to wonder if the fault might not be further upon the chain […]

#badCode #bigCompanyFails #Boots #codeSmell #errors #HCLTechnologies #IBM #managers #muggles #WebSphereCommerce #wizards #CodingAndDevelopment

New #rstats blog post: "Code Smell: Error Handling Eclipse"

https://www.njtierney.com/post/2023/12/06/long-errors-smell/

Where I discuss a code smell I've found lately, too much input error handling inside a function totally eclipses the intent of the function.

#rse #researchsoftwareengineering #codesmell

A #Discord is a #FOSS #codesmell

#opensource #slack

You know it's about to get rough when the service you're about to work on starts with #region Fields and the #endregion is not even in sight.

#csharp #codesmell

The word "and" in a method name is almost always a "code smell."

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #codeSmell