Software Craftless: Writing Code That Would Make a Goat Vomit
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A humorous, contrarian JavaScript presentation that demonstrates patterns for deliberately creating confusing, brittle, and deceptive code—examples include hiding bugs, making features fragile, writing environment-specific programs, and crafting functions with unsettling behaviors. It focuses on concrete JavaScript techniques and antipatterns that produce hard-to-debug, non-portable, and intentionally obfuscated code.
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