If somebody says a comment isn’t adding any value, I would ask: to whom?
Personally, I’ve never liked the advice that writing obvious comments is bad practice—probably because I write obvious comments all the time.
Jim showed …
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:…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
