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Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

Pure ESM package

The package that linked you here is now pure ESM. It cannot be require()'d from CommonJS.

This means you have the following choices:

Use ESM yourself. (preferred)
Use import foo from 'foo' instead of const foo = require('foo') to import the package. You also need to put "type": "module" in your package.json and more. Follow the below guide.
If the package is used in an async context, you could use await import(…) from CommonJS instead of require(…).
Stay on the existing version of the package until you can move to ESM.

	/*
	app_delegate.c

	1. Compile and link with:
	$ clang -g -o AppInC app_delegate.c -lobjc -framework Foundation -framework AppKit -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk

	2. Create a Info.plist with:
	[[
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

	var GB2260 = {
	"110000": "北京市",
	"110100": "北京市市辖区",
	"110101": "北京市东城区",
	"110102": "北京市西城区",
	"110103": "北京市崇文区",
	"110104": "北京市宣武区",
	"110105": "北京市朝阳区",
	"110106": "北京市丰台区",
	"110107": "北京市石景山区",

	-- Turkce isimler sozlugu twitter : http://twitter.com/baskindev

	CREATE TABLE `isimler` (
	`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
	`isimler` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
	`cinsiyet` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'erkek : E , kadın : K , uniseks : U',
	PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
	) ENGINE=InnoDB;

	-- ----------------------------

	;
	; Apple Wireless Keyboard Eject Key and Function kKey remapper for Windows.
	; You can get the latest version of this file at:
	; https://gist.github.com/TheZoc/a913642e9bedf62ba3ef
	;
	;==========================================================================================================================================
	; Please, if you make a significant change, fix or would like to improve this script,
	; I'd really appreciate if you can contact me so we can merge both works :)
	;==========================================================================================================================================
	;

	import sys
	import re
	import pefile
	import string
	import struct
	from capstool import CapsTool
	from capstone import *
	from capstone.x86 import *

	BCC = ["je", "jne", "js", "jns", "jp", "jnp", "jo", "jno", "jl", "jle", "jg",

	In shader programming, you often run into a problem where you want to iterate an array in memory over all pixels in a compute shader
	group (tile). Tiled deferred lighting is the most common case. 8x8 tile loops over a light list culled for that tile.

	Simplified HLSL code looks like this:

	Buffer<float4> lightDatas;
	Texture2D<uint2> lightStartCounts;
	RWTexture2D<float4> output;

	[numthreads(8, 8, 1)]