Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 10/03/2022

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Stop Manually Formatting Your Code, Use Pre-commit Hooks Instead

Let’s just do the math: If you have 20 developers that are spending five minutes a day manually formatting their code, then you are spending 100 minutes a day formatting code. At 200 days a year, that is 20,000 minutes, which is about 333 hours. That is 8 person-weeks — two months of one person’s time. In other words, stop manually formatting your code.

The Art of the Error Message

Oh my goodness — this has long been a pet peeve of mine. Error messages are often very unhelpful, and it doesn’t take much effort to make them helpful.

Software Component Names Should Be Whimsical And Cryptic

We all know that naming things is hard, and so this guy has a good point. I like that many projects have funky names like Deno an Angular.