Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)
"Firstly, I didn’t talk to the person who wrote it. I rewrote the code and checked it in without their input. Even if it was an improvement (which I don’t believe anymore), this is a terrible way to go about it."While undeniably true, this feels completely orthogonal to the question of clean code. You could ruffle someone's feathers in the exact same way by taking code into the opposite direction."Goodbye, Clean Code [...] Don’t be a clean code zealot"I agree with choosing pragmatism over purism. But the clickbaity title exercises a pattern I've seen hundreds of times, to which I have frankly become a bit allergic over the years: "X considered harmful! ...I mean, if you're overdoing X". Not being a healthy food zealot doesn't equal "goodbye, healthy food".