Programming rules
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Should error messages be treated as a public API contract?
How much cleanup belongs in a bug-fix commit?
Linters catch formatting while reviewers catch design: which misses more real bugs?
Review comments that restate the diff waste everyone's afternoon
What belongs on a pull request checklist that reviewers do not skip?
Delete dead code or comment it out? Most rulebooks dodge the question
When is it right to break your own coding standard?
Why does "don't repeat yourself" fail when two functions only look alike?
Is a hard 50-line function limit worth it on a team that ships weekly?
Why does "manager" survive every naming review?
Trunk-based or long-lived branches: which branching rule survives a large team?
Why does every codebase invent its own naming convention within a year?
Formatting arguments that gofmt and Prettier ended overnight
Error-handling rules that still let a team swallow exceptions silently
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