I Hate Screenshots of Text
I Hate Screenshots of Text During the course of a regular working day, I receive a lot of screenshots like this from well-meaning colleagues: It’s almost always in a chat about some issue that occurred in the code, or perhaps code that’s somehow related to the code in the screenshot, or… well, how am I supposed to even know? Upon seeing this code, I might think, “How is slug defined? Is slug being used to create the baseUrl? Why is the domain name hard-coded in that URL? What happens if an exception is thrown? What module is this code even in?” I have to either very carefully type some of the code into a search box or (these days) get my coding agent to find the relevant module for me. Why couldn’t my colleague have just used copy & paste? I could have seen a bit more of the…
