Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 09/19/2022

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How to stop using If-else and make your code more readable

I love this. ‘if’ statements are way overused. I always say “Every time you write an ‘if’ statement, you should view it as an opportunity to create another class.” You definitely should never use an if statement to do two different things in a single routine.

Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness

I’m fascinated by GitHub Copilot — though not enough to pay $10 a month for it. I’ve found it almost scary to use. I wonder if it is actually ethical to use open-source code without attribution as it does. But it seems pretty obvious, as this article shows, that it really works.

Agile Is Not a Method, Let Alone “The” Method

As regular readers know, I’m no fan of Scrum, so I’m 100% behind any article that casts shade on how we claim we do Agile.