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CodeSOD: A Poorly Pruned Branch

The Daily WTF

$path ) { //do stuff } else { //do other stuff } After another team member made a commit, however, the code turned into this: if ( 1 == 2 ) { //do stuff } else { //do other stuff } Now, generally , when I see 1 == 2 type expressions, I just assume that this is a templated, generated bit of code. But no, we did none of that.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. DuVander was recommended to us by Karl Hughes, the CEO of Draft.dev, which specializes in content production for developer-focused companies.

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Multilingual Development

The Daily WTF

So fine , and so happy , that other teams heard: "there's a way to integrate your applications into IniERP." There were issues: there was only one "service" account configured by the operations team, so anyone wanting to interact with the service needed to share an account. You see, Bert was a PHP developer.

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CodeSOD: Weakly Miles Calculation

The Daily WTF

But the very next line is an incredible case of bad variable names: weekly_miles = self.mileage_per_day. It was then handed off to a developer who implemented exactly that requirement , with no thought at all to how to express this in code so that it would be maintainable. Only one of these can be correct. They had a formula.

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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

TechCrunch

Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Three more from the TC+ team: CVC meets accelerators : Alex explores how Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators. Where’s your plans, friends? You can sign up here.

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A guide to modern mobile app development strategy

OTS Solutions

A guide to modern mobile app development strategy. One of the areas that a lot of focus has been laid on is mobile application development. As a CEO, if you want your brand to get closer to your consumer, mobile application development should be part of your short-term or long-term business strategy. Weak server-side controls.

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Sellscale uses generative AI to create better marketing emails

TechCrunch

For sales development representatives, automated emails are necessary to create the volume of outbound inquiries they need to get a decent number of leads. But badly written emails result in few replies and also make companies look bad. After graduating, each of them had jobs where they worked closely with sales and growth teams.