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What are your worst coding habits?

Ben Halpern on May 26, 2019

Is it bad commit messages, getting distracted by social media, commenting out tests?

Let’s hear it all.

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selbekk

I write git status at least 4000 times a day, for no reason whatsoever.

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Sundeep

how about ls and clear

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Huy Duy

You can use Ctrl + L instead.

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PlayBossWar

Doing this all day long when I'm working for no reason, I don't know why actually

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José Coelho

Yep that's me. I even write git status after committing just to make sure 😅

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GlyphCat

And also git branch after git checkout just to make sure I'm on the right branch… 😂

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kaddkaka

My prompt reflects which branch I'm on, super helpful!

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Sundeep

That has actually helped me once, I'd forgotten to git add some files

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Sean Porter

at least alias it to gst!

also: me too

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Casey Brooks

With as much as I check git status, I don't have time for a 3-letter alias! gs is all I can afford 😜

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Anton Osenenko

And gpr for git pull --rebase

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Mahesh Sunuwar

Most of the time, git log follows git status in my case. :P

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kaddkaka

tig gives me more information, more concisely. Try it out :)

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Khoa Huỳnh

Underrated

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Jairo Malanay

Is it bad ?
Im also guilty of this one + ls and clear

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Been there
😂😭

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Vicente G. Reyes

This sounds like a good practice😂

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ahmad_haqqer

me too dude

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Alan Barr

Never taking the time to learn hotkeys. Not reaching out to a second set of eyes before spending too much time on something. Not doing enough design up front.

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Ben Halpern

Are you me?

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Sean Porter

I use vim for basically everything & I can't remember how to do macros without looking it up. I think just generalize this to "not learning your tools effectively" & I totally agree.

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Jonathan Speek

This is super relatable.

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Alex Antra

I rewrite other people’s code to my extremely high standard so I can understand it. Such a time waste.

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Dominik

I know this far too well. There is this strong feeling of „You can’t leave it like it is, when you know it.“ but in the end ... it would most likely run for ages without any issues if we wouldn’t rewrite it. And maybe nobody would ever touch it again. :-)

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Ben Halpern

I’m sure this thread will contain much worse habits than that! 😂

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Helen Anderson

Haha! you are far more patient than I am!

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Hugo • Edited

I do not write unit tests 😔

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DIANE GAYDEN

I knew if I kept reading I'd find my bad habit.

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Jacque Schrag

Same! I've never written a test. I know that I should, but... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Christopher Kade

Small plug, but I wrote an introduction to unit testing if that could help any of you 😃

dev.to/christopherkade/introductio...

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Jacque Schrag

This is great, thank you!

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Manda Putra

Dateline !== No test, or just lrave like this

Agile !== No test

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

Not reading enough docs, whether it's a framework or API

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aravind_reddy

Totally relatable

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Vicente G. Reyes

Stare at my editor -> search for help in duckduckgo -> open social media -> change music on spotify😂

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

That's literally me every single day 😂😂

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Carlos Garcia ★

Same. ❤

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Helen Anderson

Being too lazy to turn off 'helpful' system settings, like the one that autocompletes a closing bracket. I used to end up adding a closing bracket myself and then having too many so had to hit backspace to get rid of one.

Now that that has become muscle memory, whenever I'm not using that tool I hit backspace on autopilot even though there is no 'helpful' closing bracket to get rid of.

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Ben Sinclair

I do this all the time!
It's all muscle memory now.

The other way the IDE gets in my way is when I want to add a closing bracket or parenthesis but my cursor is already immediately before one and the editor treats it as if they're the same - so I think I've added enough, but oh no.

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Helen Anderson

Ugh. Instant rage quit.

There are also some strange moments when the cursor just vanishes completely and I don't know where I am anymore.

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Ben Halpern

Ah yes, been there.

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Dinesh Pandiyan

Step 1: Spot a code smell
Step 2: Add a // TODO comment
Step 3: Never get back to it

Repeat.

This is the story of my dev life 😔

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Forest Hoffman

If you're a VS Code user, checkout the Todo Tree extension.

It's a nice alternative to searching in all files for // TODO or // DEBUG before commiting!

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John Dev

Good tip 😉

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Brian Kephart

Not using feature branches.

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Ben Halpern

This was me until I worked with folks who set great examples. I eventually learned better habits.

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Sean Porter

Not sure I'd agree with this one, depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

Committing directly to trunk has its benefits, everyone gets the changes immediately but you just need to make sure that the changes are self-contained enough to not break anything.

I used to think this was the way to go too until I read Continuous Delivery
all the way through.

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K

Trunk based devlopment ftw.

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Phuong Huynh

haha, you should try to fix it soon

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Stefano Armenes

You should try git flow :)

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Donna Hogan
  • git push --force on a regular basis
  • using VSC to open dot files and not taking the time to learn vim or nano, etc
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selbekk • Edited

My git alias for that command is git fush 😄

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Robert Schaap

I need that in my life. I'm an obsessive compulsive interactive rebaser.

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Ben Halpern

I don’t think the second is a bad habit. There’s no special reason one needs to be using bin or nano imo.

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Eric Curtin

I think all Unix/Linux developers should know vim. Because vi or vim is almost always installed on these variants. Sure for local development a UI is great, a very useful tool! But for editing files on remote machines, the ability to ssh to a remote machine and make a quick change is very important.

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rhymes

Sometimes I struggle and go for the longer route instead of just focusing on the quick fix.

I often set a breakpoint and learn how code works from there instead of just looking at the documentation.

A part of me wants to fix everything but I've become much more pragmatic over time 😂

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K

I try to do the right thing first.

Often I fail because of missing information, then I do a bunch of quick fixes second.

Then after the fixes built up too much, I do a rewrite as it should be and everything is good.

The second part often happens because I only find the missing information after I tried enough fixes.

Dumb problem and probably unsolvable 😒

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Mac Siri

Being too obsessed with code perfection instead of just shipping the feature.

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K

Prettier and refmt helped me so much with this

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Ben Sinclair

I still tend to jump in and start coding my first idea. I tell myself it's a proof of concept or that I'm experimenting with different ideas but too often I just end up going with it and not putting the effort in to find a better solution.
I do this even if I have time to plan the project out, because I've worked in tight deadline agencies for so long it's become a habit that's hard to break.

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Andreas Bergqvist • Edited

This. I guess sometimes its also a strength. Atleast I tell myself...

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K

Do it with TLA+ instead! 🙃

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Michiel Hendriks

Not writing (and updating) documentation explaining intent and purpose.

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Pedro Marques

I work in a small team (2 front-end devs), and my co-worker is a bit picky about documenting every function, class, method, etc etc.
But sometimes all he documents is something a function name tells it upfront, I really think there's no purpose in doing something like:

/** This function transforms lower case string to uppper case **/
function lowerCaseToUpper(str...);

If you declare functions and variables with intuitive names, sometimes there's no need to explain them :)

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Everistus Olumese

It is called self-documenting functions for a reason right?

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Pedro Marques

yup... unless that function transforms the string using some alien computation, there's no need for that

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Sung M. Kim • Edited

Confession:
TFS (Team foundation) lets you commit your code without a message. I sometimes commit without a message...

And I reformat others' code.

The worst offender is always Googling for simple tasks such adding simple HTML elements such as adding CSS link tags and script tags... (I wonder if it's just me not knowing how to add them out of memory 🤔)

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Jakob Christensen

We moved all our code from TFVC to TFS Git which I can highly recommend. You get the best of both worlds (TFS backlog and project control together with Git version control). And you will never commit without a message again 😉

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Sung M. Kim

Wow 😮
Thanks, Jacob.
I wasn't aware it was possible to migrate to TFS Git and keep all the history.

I will check it out~

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Ben Halpern

No commit message is such an odd thing to me.

I also always good css link tags 😂

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Sung M. Kim

git way of forcing a message should be how all VCS should be IMHO.

I also always good css link tags 😂
😂 👊

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Stephen Chiang

I get debug/Refactor/develop creep. Often I'm working on one thing and I notice something that can be fixed rewritten or moved somewhere so that it can be reused... Or I suddenly decide to stub out something for later later. Sure, it's stuff that had to be done at some point, but hard to explain or justify when you list hours to tasks for a single component and for some reason a component was finished, plus 2 stubbed, plus one refactored, and a new service was created. 🤪

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Brandon Satrom

So many, here are a few that come to mind...

  • git add .
  • git commit -m {same message as the last commit, but I forgot something and don’t feel like writing a new message}
  • git push origin master
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Manda Putra

Im still use git add . 🤣

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Daan Wilmer

git commit --amend could work, although it would require a sinful git push -f if you've already pushed it.

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Periklis Gkolias

Using mouse when the keyboard can do the job in one third of the time

Stupid names in variables

Not using a git prompt

Windows 😊😊

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K

Coming from years of RTS and FPS gaming, often the mouse is simply qick enough 🤖

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Eugene Karataev

It's hard for me to work with poorly written legacy code.
From one side I want to rewrite a module I'm working on to meet quality standards. But from other side usually the module is connected with other modules in an unpredicable spaghetti way, so refactoring might be a very deep rabbit hole. And there are always deadlines.
So my bad habit is procrastinating when I face such problems. I need to get a cup of coffee or scroll through twitter for 5 minutes before I can return to the work 😂

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Nick Taylor

My git alias, pf,is just for that, alias.pf push --force-with-lease. More here 😉

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Tim Ermilov • Edited

Using "up" arrow key in terminal to find a command instead of typing it.
I know I've used it already! 🤦‍♂️

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kaddkaka

Use ctrl-r to search for the command in your history instead

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Tim Ermilov

I know and use that frequently, but man - that up button won't leave me alone 😂

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Andy Haskell

Probably overanalysis. I've got an eye for detail thinking about edge cases, but that has a tendency to bog me down before I start writing code for the normal case that I could then iterate on, which I'm trying to work on

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Carlos Garcia ★ • Edited

This is what I came to post. I can spend up to an hour checking if there's something in the code base that can be reused for the task I have at hand, and then thinking about how it can be reused, adapted, or modified for different cases. And sometimes it's just easier to write a simple function or method to deal with the problem.

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George

If I get a bug in X project that I can't figure out for a while I'll jump to another project and work on that one until I get another bug that I can't figure out for a while then I'll jump back to the original project sort that one out, and back and forth

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Den McHenry

I do a lot of Razor templating (C# with HTML), and when I do something dependent on an external API (e.g., an Instagram widget), I usually wrap it in a try-catch block without handling the exception. I usually just print an HTML comment like, <!— Something went wrong with the Instagram widget. —>.

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Bos Eriko Reyes

Using Facebook's messenger when I'm coding. I can't let go of this one. I think it's because I isolate myself too much. I don't go out. Not at all. I don't use Facebook (I only use messenger, I don't have a Facebook). I use Twitter to see Feed related to coding as well. So I just can't let go of messenger. I need to talk to people. But I consider it a bad habit because I keep it open while coding. It will probably be healthier to just use Messenger when I'm not coding.

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PlayBossWar

I'm feeling this too. I talk to people but I think it's a huge waste of time. Like serious I'm coding 12h a day at a regular base but I'm feeling like I could do the 12h work in 6h if I close social media

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Stephanie Handsteiner

I don't write tests.

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K

Me neither.

The problem is often, that only code fails that couldn't be tested automatically anyway. (In app purchases, etc.)

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lbonanomi

Finding an exciting library/package/technique and then prowling for problems that my new toy will fix.

Never going back and removing the shell pipes and system calls after the prototype worked.

parsing argv in main.

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Ben Holmes

For me, the worst habit comes out most when I'm trying to help others through problems in their code: learning when to step back and look for other solutions.

Just the other night, I got sucked into an 80 reply Slack conversation about a bug in someone's Heroku build. A lot of those messages came from my own misunderstanding in the build steps of their app and how Heroku handles deployment. After reaching a dead end pulling from my own knowledge, I did a quick crawl through GitHub to find similar issues to his own, and we soon found the culprit. Basically, I found that even when I think I understand an issue with a hacky way to solve it, it's always worth an Internet search to find the best solution.

It's really hard to find that balance of when to look for help versus when I should go with my gut, but I'm always working on it!

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Karl N. Redman

porn

however you define porn these days.... it's a distraction. If your porn is hours of netflix, ok. But that is potentially a bad habit. Basically everything that isn't productive is bad -right?

I disagree with this concept. IMHO people need to do various things in order to be productive at 'something'. I think there's some science behind this but meh, look that up on your own time.... I have 1 year to catch up on free BBC Dr. Who episodes via some darkweb torrent somewhere...

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Tommy May III • Edited

Never doing the bandaid solution and always engineering things to a fault. This doesn't sound like too bad of a thing but trust me it's okay to put on the bandaid sometimes. I would have saved many hours if I would have put the bandaid solution on some features that my project owners didn't even want a few weeks / months later.

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Javier Guerra

My editor is VIM, and I use arrow keys. Also I don't use autocomplete, I actually hate it. Not sure why. I like to write words my self. Anyways, most of my time coding is hitting arrow keys, not typing actual code.

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Michael Boulos

I often get overconfident and forgo unit testing until I finish coding a feature. Which often leads to some really fun debugging.

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Thorsten Hirsch

I'm running yarn upgrade and bundle update way too often.

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Pedro Marques

my co-worker also bumps versions on package.json way too much without any precautions.
sometimes the code breaks and guess what.... NEW VERSION OF SOME PACKAGE is causing it!

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Larizza Tueros

Code: When I just want to jump on codeland without think for one sec of what I am doing.

Time: I tend to give estimations too quickly.whrn someone ask me how much time is going to take me... My brain flips and it make me think I am the developer version of flash

Social media

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Nikola Stojaković

Obsession with doing everything upfront, instead of making it work and improving it later. I also tend to avoid committing parts of the code related to the feature I haven't finished yet. As a result, I keep the code on my machine for tomorrow and commit when I build the whole feature.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

When I need to use search, instead of searching in VIM, I launch sublime and search in there.

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rhymes

ripgrep needs to become your friend 😂

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Forest Hoffman

o.0 this is a thing?! That's awesome! Definitely going to grab that as soon as I can.

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rhymes

It's also the tool that Visual Studio Code uses to search :D

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Pedro Marques

When on a tight deadlines, I don't write any documentation, and sometimes code/component splitting is also left behind.
This leads to some refactoring time after the deadlines are over and boss is not in a hurry to have something ready!

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HS

Before: relying on IDE. Lately I realised I didn't know any packages/namespaces (java, c# respectively) until I read the name and decided OK this could be the one I need. And I'm talking about main language features not just libraries.

After I've changed that habit I still copy paste stuff for JWT or any kind of filter/middleware then read code and change what I don't like, don't need or need differently implemented. Shame on me.

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Michael Whitis

I have a bad habit of overengineering things, so I never trust the code I wrote previously, even yesterday, or before lunch, or before that last meeting, or.... so have a horrible workflow of git reset —hard then rewriting or restoring from local history all the things I just worked on.

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Sean Walker

No tests

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Daan Wilmer
  • Getting distracted by social media (especially dangerous when my music is on YouTube).
  • Writing tests after I wrote the code, when I should've used TDD and wrote the test first.
  • Not asking in time (although consciously trying to ask more often does help)
  • Being late for the stand-up
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Ed Link III
  1. Procrastinating
  2. Not starting my work right away
  3. Being lazy when I should be coding
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Filip Messa

I use console log for debugging instead of debugger tool. So sometimes I lost in all these messages in console.

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Manda Putra

I think using console.log arent bad. But leaving it without reason maybe that bad 😀 sometimes weird bug just need console.log not fire up debugger unless it is complicated stuff like long long long query

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Will Lawrence

Leaving unneeded comments.

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Marc Nevin

I jump around editors so much that quite often I commit files I've been editing in VSC with a :wq at the end

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Daan Wilmer

My trouble is with esc. Let me click here... open a modal... enter some text... done typing, esc... dammit, where'd it go?

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hiral patel

Constantly checking social media along with coding.

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Joe Beretta

Use Git GUI more often than CLI.

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Lars Wächter

Giving variables random names like 'test' or 'rofl' and renaming them later again when I'm almonst done with my work.

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David Wickes

What's meat to the goose is poison to the gander...

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Saúl Molinero • Edited

Opening GitHub for something work related, and get distracted looking deeply on what people I'm following have starred 😅

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Donna Hogan • Edited

struggling on my own for an embarrassingly long time before finally asking for help 😖

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K

Trunk based development to the rescue!

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StefanT123

Two things:

  • I Always try to reinvent the wheel. It's very time consuming, but I guess that's my way of learning things.

  • Trying to learn everything even though I know that's immposible.

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Pedro Marques

Sometimes I too feel the obligation to create something from scratch, instead of picking some package/library that does that already!

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Jonny Evason

All of the above? I guess the worst is getting distracted with new ideas and not completing the current tasks.

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rouani azedine

Googling same git commands every day

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upendramanve

This is me every time I want to go sudo

suod -s 
bash: suod: command not found
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Dhanushka madushan

Don't plan early to adapt future changes. Once software getting more and more complex, Even I can not understand what I have written.

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Elias Bourgess • Edited

trying to always reinvent the wheel, thus making me waste time on stuff that are already there

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Dian Fay

Single-letter table aliases.

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afroRoboticist

First attempting to use the most complicated data structures available to try to solve a problem. Then finding out an ordinary list will do. #python

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Ender Ahmet Yurt

trying to develop something fast and make many mistakes.. :/

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Antonio Radovcic

I‘m not very restrictive in my use of !important.

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Amirition

Been there, make your selectors more accurate.

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Antonio Radovcic • Edited

its not due to my own css but mostly:

  • vendor-css (from libraries etc.)
  • js-libraries which add styles to tags

I also keep a util.css file in every project, for classes like "util-no-margin" or "util-upcase", for usage in one-off constructs which don't repeat through the site. important is in all of the declarations because why not.

so personally I have nothing against important, I just consider it a bad habit because it's widely seen as "dirty" and such.

but, you know, it's just css at the end of the day.

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Amirition

Yes, when another file is using !important, you have to use it and I completely agree that it's just css :D

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Ian Knighton

I leave comments and commented code, just in case I ever have to go back and am too far out to just rollback.

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Git : Am I a joke to you

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Wern Ancheta

I use jQuery for every single project.

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Ali Murteza Yesil

Spending too much time trying to optimize hotkeys that I get no time to learn and use them.

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Christian González

Saving on every change, I’m improving and trying to only save once it’s ready for another test run.

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Sam Rose

If I suggest some cleaner of more efficient approach in a PR, and the author pushes back for any reason, I often just give up and approve to avoid the confrontation. :(

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Diego Isco

Sometimes I copy code from Stackoverflow without try to understand it 🥺

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Allan Kibet

Pushing to master and inconsistent naming conventions

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Den McHenry

Adding things as they come up to whatever branch I’m currently working on rather than putting them in a more appropriate branch.

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KL Lawingco

I work fast when on a team, usually I finish and commits my codes first because I don't want to fix conflicts.

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Steffen Pedersen

My worst coding habit is being too careful and thorough. This will result in me working slowly. It is something that I try to improve every day 😃

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amineamami

console logging xD

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Meru Patel

Writing code without learning, reading.

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Vicente G. Reyes • Edited

Stealing bootstrap code snippets. Whats the point of memorizing it anyway?😄

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Eugene Samonenko

ctrl+s each time after few letters of code

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Pavel Susicky

Learning new techniques, design patterns and so on.. (still good), then realize my current project is written "badly" and start to rewriting it or in the worst case don't finish it at all. 😟

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Munaib Hussain

Spending way to much time naming: directories, files and functions/variables, It's my biggest time sink.

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Terence Lucas Yap

Not commenting my code regularly. My future self hates me.

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David Wickes • Edited

Premature abstraction

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Suleman Khan

I watched tutorials and take many programming courses and think that i learn by just watching and practicing with instructor and not building some projects on that technology on my own.

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

Hmmm.. using git add wrongly that commit all my ignore files for the project I'm working on.

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zubairkumbla
  1. Hardcoding
  2. Not to follow OOPS
  3. Not to do commit
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José Devezas

I still use prints instead of a debugger. It's a lousy habit I've been fighting against for years.

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temmyraharjo

Whenever I commit, I always put "update" as the message. Lol.

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Amirition

Not doing that tiny little final test ...

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Miguel Ángel Durán González

Not taking the time to add tests to existing codebases when modifying some code.