It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by default and require a click to reveal:… Read article “Rethinking Code Comments”
Hilarious idea by Zach Leatherman. To test if a comment is “snarky” or not, there is an npm package up to the task.
On this site, we generally just delete snarky comments, but I still run a WordPress plugin that allows me to “feature” or “bury” comments. It’s old but it still works fine in the latest WordPress. We use the bury functionality for comments that aren’t rude, snarky, or spam, but also don’t add much to the post. … Read article “Render Snarky Comments in Comic Sans”
I believe commenting code is important. Most of all, I believe commenting is misunderstood. I tweeted out the other day that “I hear conflicting opinions on whether or not you should write comments. But I get thank you’s from junior devs for writing them so I’ll continue.” The responses I received were varied, but what caught my eye was that for every person agreeing that commenting was necessary, they all had different reasons for believing this. … Read article “The Art of Comments”
I recently came across an article by Rory Cellan-Jones about a new technology from Jigsaw, a development group at Google focused on making people safer online through technology. At the time they’d just released the first alpha version of what they call The Perspective API. It’s a machine learning tool that is designed to rate a string of text (i.e. a comment) and provide you with a Toxicity Score, a number representing how toxic the text is. … Read article “Improving Conversations using the Perspective API”
The following is a guest post by Mike Neumegen from CloudCannon. This final post is about adding some functionality to a Jekyll site that isn’t possible: comments. That’s because Jekyll has no backend component in which to save comments. But, we don’t even need that if we do it entirely front-end with Firebase!… Read article “Building a Jekyll Site – Part 3 of 3: Creating a Firebase-Backed Commenting System”
