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Have you ever heard the phrase "man your battle stations"? There is another type of station: cleaning stations. And they make a call "all hands man your clean
by leetrout 5y ago
Have you ever heard the phrase "man your battle stations"?
There is another type of station: cleaning stations.
And they make a call "all hands man your cleaning stations".
Every sailor has an area they are responsible for cleaning and they go there and clean.
I've pitched the same for codebases the past few places I have worked: everyone has a cleaning station in the code base and once every few weeks they go to that part of the code and fix or identify and document needed improvements.
Making it a routine action that keeps up with incremental changes and ideally lowers effort on keeping a code base clean.
- kortex 5y agoThis is a great suggestion. My manager hates the term "tech debt", because it's too vague and everyone has their own idea of what constitutes tech debt. But what we can enumerate are things like heavily intertwined logic and IO, difficult to follow business logic, poor documentation, long functions, etc.