Step Away from Stack Overflow

Re:Step Away from Stack Overflow by remram on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:04PM (#29664518)

I go one further. If I do use a piece of code from Stack overflow (usually a workaround for some API pain point or specific technical gimmick), I linked to the answer from a comment. I then built a tool to notify me if that answer gets new comments or new answers are added. [1] Similar to how I check for new versions of my npm/pip/gem/cargo dependencies, I check for new info on my Stack overflow dependencies.

[1]: https://github.com/remram44/depoverflow

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Re:Step Away from Stack Overflow by Larrikin on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:21PM (#29668285)

I link to SO in a comment if there's some bug I'm working around or similar with an explanation about why a strange code snippet is doing something that looks strange. There is usually a TODO so that the code can be removed when the bug is fixed.

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Re:Step Away from Stack Overflow by remram on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:28PM (#29668336)

That's good too, I just find personally that in larger codebases, those TODOs tend to stay forever.

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