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  1. The problem with TODO comments is that nothing actually forces you to resolve them. Developers agree to take shortcuts they will revisit, but never actually get around to it. A good example is feature flags... how often…

  2. Hello HN, About six months ago I started a new job at a "real" tech company after a decade working in startups, scale-ups, and relatively "non-tech" tech companies. Now I work in an org with hundreds of services, many…

  3. I'm thinking of taking on a new open source project. This would be a native desktop application distributed under something like GPL or MPL2. As a software engineer I do a lot of architecture and process diagrams but I…

  4. I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone. Now I've written a terminal app for this…

  5. Greeting Hackers, I recently acquired a very uncommon PlayStation 1 devkit and I've set about a personal sidequest to write a _very basic_ PSOne game. I've started by prototyping in JavaScript/canvas and am now porting…

  6. I've had a thought for a small to medium sized open source project and wanted to run it by HN for validation. There's been a few times I've wanted to ask questions about the repositories at use in my workplace: - what's…