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		Refactoring – Not on the Backlog (ronjeffries.com)
		6 points by lobo_tuerto on June 11, 2021 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

MeteorMarc on June 11, 2021 [–]

This is known as the boy scout principle. Nice pictures, so still an upvote!

NanoWar on June 11, 2021 | [–]

I interpreted the boy scout rule more like cleaning up a bit, fix typos, correct comments, extract methods. But only that won't help if you are stuck with spaghetti code

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