Clean vs Sloppy Code

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the difference between sloppy code and clean code, how to establish rules for your code base, and how to enforce your rules.

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Show Notes

• 00:24 Welcome
• 00:46 Sponsor: Sentry
• 01:51 Uses performance issues
• Uses.tech
• 04:23 Understand Sloppy Code
• 10:17 Syntax website timestamp issue
• 12:56 Establish rules to fix sloppy code
• 16:35 Adding a feature, do you refactor an unrelated function?
• 23:07 How do you enforce rules?
• GitHub Actions

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