Episode 5 - Code Quality and Why You Don't Need to Comment your Code with Christian Clausen

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In this episode we discuss code quality with Christian Clausen, author of the book "5 lines of code".
We discuss common code smells and bad practices as well as his opinion on one-liners and code-comments. Listen to the episode to know what an expert considers to be the measure of the quality of a code base.
Links of interest:

• SonarQube: https://www.sonarqube.org/
• CodeScene: https://codescene.com/
• SemGrep: https://semgrep.dev/

Get in touch with the Christian:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedrlambda
• Medium: https://thedrlambda.medium.com/

Get his book:
Check out "5 lines of code" and use this code to get a 35% discount during checkout: pod20minjs22
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1. Episode 5 - Code Quality and Why You Don't Need to Comment your Code with Christian Clausen (00:00:00)

2. What is Code Quality? (00:02:06)

3. On co-pilot from Github (00:04:03)

4. What are code smells? (00:05:47)

5. What is the Eval function? (00:13:27)

6. One-liners vs expanded code (00:15:22)

7. Are code comments really needed? (00:18:21)

8. Code quality tools (00:24:16)

9. Recommended workflows to ensure code quality (00:26:25)

10. About the book "5 lines of code" (00:30:33)

11. The best advice he ever received (00:32:22)

12. His most exciting project (00:33:09)

13. What he wishes he knew before starting coding (00:33:45)

14. Where can people find him? (00:35:34)