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Detailed commit messages w/ Chris Toomey

YAGNI

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Code Commit Messages

Instead of a code comment, I will extract a method or a variable that is named for essentially what that comment is. And I find it's much harder to just misuse a method that has the name that clearly says like this method adds one to the thing. So you would have a method that says something like, you know, add additional timeout for you know, Twitter API rate limit flakiness or something instead of writing that as a code comment above.

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