Matt Wilcox on Nostr: All coders: Indent your code for readability. Use tabs for indentation, spaces for ...
All coders:
Indent your code for readability. Use tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.
Lay that shit out. Put it into columns and groupings.
We are humans, not robots. We scan things, we detect patterns and groupings. *All humans do this*. We pre-parse everything we see in 2D, including words and code, before we stream in data sequentially.
Do not do a robot's work for them. Do not be lazy.
I just fixed a bug because I re-formatted "computer code" so it was scannable.
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