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Ben Pettis is @bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja

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Apparently M*sk wants remaining employees to send him screenshots of the "10 most salient" lines of code

Which, to be clear, is a ridiculous request.

It got me thinking though - what are the 10 worst/clunkiest lines I've ever written?

11/18/2022, 5:12:18 PM

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On that note, I'll be presenting some of my worst code in Denver at the @SCMStudies #SCMS23 conference next year & share my work with @mediahistorydl

"[‘dateStart’], [‘dateString’], and dateKludge(): A Critical Code Studies Analysis of the Media History Digital Library"

11/18/2022, 5:12:18 PM

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Ben Pettis is @bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja

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Come for the self-deprecating humor and examples of coding worst-practices!

Stay for the discussion of organizing digital archives, making data accessible, and meeting user needs, all through a lens of code studies and software studies! đŸ¤“

11/18/2022, 5:12:19 PM

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