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Developer shares custom Claude Code plugins 'Essentials' and 'Ideation' that use AI to clean code and structure ideas while preserving personal style and judgment.
Developer shares custom Claude Code plugins 'Essentials' and 'Ideation' that use AI to clean code and structure ideas while preserving personal style and judgment.
A developer shares a real-world example of applying De Morgan's Laws to refactor a boolean expression in Go code.
A developer shares an 18-month follow-up on using AI coding assistants like Cursor, Gemini, and Claude for a complex project refactoring.
Explains why using multiple boolean parameters in functions is problematic and demonstrates cleaner refactoring techniques.
Opinion on Apple's new M3 Macs and AI developer tools, discussing performance plateaus and the challenge of convincing users to upgrade.
A developer reflects on a decade-old JavaScript code snippet for toggling R code blocks, comparing jQuery to modern vanilla JS methods like querySelectorAll.
An introduction to codemods using jscodeshift to automate and standardize code changes across a codebase.
Explores valid use cases for the 'goto' keyword in C#, challenging its reputation as universally bad practice.
Lists the top nine essential technical skills for a successful .NET developer, including C#, ASP.NET MVC, and database knowledge.
A Python programming tip showing how to replace multiple if-statements with a dictionary for cleaner, more readable code, using a simple calculator example.
A developer argues that `else` statements often make code more complex and demonstrates how refactoring with early returns and guard clauses can simplify JavaScript logic.
A developer explains how to refactor repetitive Julia code for a Twitter API package using metaprogramming techniques to reduce lines and improve maintainability.
Explains the Strategy design pattern in JavaScript with a practical game character movement example to create flexible, swappable algorithms.
An overview of the MvcMembership project, an ASP.NET MVC starter kit for implementing membership and authentication features with extensible controllers.