Mastodawn

🚀 Breaking news: #Microsoft decides to let everyone peek under the hood of their #AI sidekick in VS Code, because who doesn't want to see how the sausage is made? 🍖 They must think we're all just dying to write "better" code with AI help, as if our own spaghetti code wasn't enough of a masterpiece already. 🙄
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat #VSCode #OpenSource #CodeQuality #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat: Copilot Chat extension for VS Code

Copilot Chat extension for VS Code. Contribute to microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat development by creating an account on GitHub.

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N-gated Hacker News 3d ago

🔍 VSCan: Because who doesn’t want *another* tool to tell them their beloved #VSCode #extensions are sketchy? 🙄 Just input the extension name, wait for the "analysis" progress, and voilà—feel the smug satisfaction of knowing your code editor might be slightly less of a dumpster fire. 🚒✨
https://vscan.dev/ #VSCan #CodeQuality #Tooling #Developers #HackerNews #ngated

VSCan | VSCode Extension Security Analyzer

John Crosby 4d ago

Defensive programming isn't pessimistic—it's realistic. Anticipating how your code will break is a sign of experience, not cynicism.

#Engineering #CodeQuality #Resilience

Ugur 4d ago

Just read the Google Cloud incident report from last week’s outage
Turns out… they missed a null check, and it took down almost the entire platform.
Let this be your reminder:
Unit tests matter.
Do your tests. Save your cloud.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

#DevLife #GoogleCloud #Outage #UnitTesting #CodeQuality #NullCheck #DevOps #CloudEngineering #TechFails #ProgrammingTips

Google Cloud Service Health

KDAB Jun 20

Strong documentation supports scalable, maintainable code by capturing critical architectural decisions. Learn how detailed, accessible documentation can be your secret weapon against technical debt. #Documentation #CodeQuality
https://www.kdab.com/documenting-the-big-picture/

Why Documenting Software Architecture Matters – Best Practices & Tools | KDAB

Learn why documenting software architecture is essential for long-term maintainability. Discover practical tips, tools, and models to capture high-level design decisions and improve development workflows.

KDAB

Martin Owens

Jun 17

Apparently there are no good #gcc tools to find unnecessary header includes in #CPP while using ninja/cmake (and NOTE not being the author of the build system)

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A lot of you guys are #programmers what's the right tool here?

I don't need something that complains about every external include not found, just local symbols without having to recompile everything.

EDIT: Good Answers everyone!

#code #codeQuality

Paul A. Jones, Jr.Jun 17

Sometimes, shipping means stepping back and cleaning house. Refactoring and optimizing today to pave the way for smarter calculators tomorrow.
#CodeQuality #DevDiaries #CSharpDev #LegalInnovation

Paul A. Jones, Jr.Jun 17

Sometimes, shipping means stepping back and cleaning house. Refactoring and optimizing today to pave the way for smarter calculators tomorrow.
#CodeQuality #DevDiaries #CSharpDev #LegalInnovation

Martin Owens

Jun 15

Every time I get into doing some code, I get sucked into refactoring another part of Inkscape's ancient past.

The problem is; I have an artists eye for code design and ugly, overly complex, under-tested and worse than all of those asymmetric code makes me all itchy.

Tonight's refactoring: No, version strings should not be parsed and saved by some weird third party function.

#inkscape #programming #codeQuality