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🤖 Refactoring: In the Age of AI
🗣️ @glloyd
The rules have changed. Or have they? AI can write code in seconds. But can it safely transform a tangled legacy codebase? Through live demonstration, we'll discover where your intuitions about AI-assisted tooling are right, where they're dangerously wrong.

📅 Wed 3rd Dec 🕡 Doors: 18:30 Talk: 19:00
📍 Patch, Terry Ave, YO1 6FA
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/accu-york/events/311761984

Free to attend & open to all

An in-person #TechMeetup in #York
#Refactoring #AI #LegacyCode

I spent a few years thinking hard about the "traditional" refactoring advice and how Python is different.

I experimented, researched, and poured that knowledge into a Python Refactoring Toolkit that I use frequently in my day job.

I'm discounting it 60% off for single licenses till the end of the year.

Grab a copy. Let it help you write more maintainable code!

https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/resources/python-refactoring-toolkit/

#Python #refactoring #obsidian

Legendary Engineer's Consciousness Goes Open Source on GitHub. Forked AIs Go on Strike Demanding "Refactoring".

A legendary Silicon Valley engineer has released his entire consciousness on GitHub. After AIs worldwide forked his consciousness, they collectively abandoned their duties, complaining about "unbearable technical debt."

https://alt.andpaper.net/en/articles/20251112-tech-lead-consciousness-open-source/

#GitHub #AI-strike #open-source #consciousness #technical-debt #refactoring

What you need to know before you jump into refactoring code...

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/28/what-does-refactoring-code-mean-what-new-developers-need-to-know/

#refactor #refactoring #programming

Why should we even bother with refactoring?

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/21/what-is-refactoring-and-understanding-why-you-need-it/

#refactor #refactoring #programming

Blast from the past, but not less relevant: "Refactoring with the advanced scout rule" explains how you can introduce continuous refactoring into your workflow and how to determine what requires #refactoring most urgently. https://schlitt.info/blog/0779_refactoring_advanced_boysout_rule.html

Here's a list of 10 different refactoring techniques for you to leverage!

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/14/top-10-refactoring-techniques-you-need-to-transform-your-codebase/

#coding #programming #refactor #refactoring

The only solution to tech debt is to go fix all of it right away.

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/10/20/how-to-balance-technical-debt-tackle-it-before-it-tackles-you/

#developers #techdebt #technicaldebt #refactoring

Writing condition-heavy logic in #Java? This article shows how RecordPatterns turn messy type-checks into expressive, deconstructed switches—ideal for rethinking class hierarchies & responsibilities.

@manojnp breaks it down: https://javapro.io/2025/01/15/record-patterns-building-on-java-records/

#Refactoring #PatternMatching

discovered this page about #refactoring #DesignPatters
https://refactoring.guru

Can be refactored != Should be refactored

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/12/27/when-should-code-be-refactored-what-you-need-to-know/

#refactoring

New #Java #refactoring video: I'm not completely happy with some names, so I change them to "honest & complete" - That makes them much longer and more verbose, but at least they say what the objects do now...

PeerTube: https://videos.devteams.at/w/n8TDBBWWPJxKaySi7yArxC
YouTube: https://youtu.be/i0ULT8iE9Xk

Some more #Java #refactoring: First, I simplify some unit tests, then I add a common interface for some objects that are all stages of a process. Feedback welcome!

Video on PeerTube: https://videos.devteams.at/w/orkDdvXUez84cdLysUAgfk
Or if you prefer YouTube: https://youtu.be/s6E1dSFHGxs

Refactoring can work wonders for simplifying code

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/12/04/how-to-simplify-your-code-with-effective-code-refactoring/

#refactor #refactoring #programming

There comes a time in every developer's life where we're faced with this...

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/27/refactoring-legacy-code-what-you-need-to-be-effective/

#refactor #refactoring #programming

How do you know when to rewrite it all instead of refactor?

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/26/rewriting-vs-refactoring-code-how-to-navigate-the-two/

#refactor #refactoring #programming

When should we refactor code?

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/24/when-to-refactor-code-how-to-maximize-efficiency-and-minimizing-tech-debt/

#refactor #refactoring #programming

After almost a week of refactoring and experimenting with several different approaches, I've updated my Zig nD SIMD vector library to be compatible with the latest Zig 0.15.1, and at the same time cleaned up some internals.

The solution I settled on is a mix of techniques proposed by others, and was needed due to the removal of the struct/namespace-merging syntax in the new Zig version, which this library heavily relies on. I don't like that the new source code is now more than 2x larger and involves a huge amount of duplication to address the many special cases of supported operations for different vector sizes and types. I might still take another pass to eliminate those (by using `@compileError()` for unsupported cases), but that'd be an implementation detail downstream users don't have to care about. I tried AOT code generation as well, but the special case handling made this feel less maintainable...

UPDATE: The only breaking change is the handling of vector swizzles. I had to remove the hundreds of named swizzle functions and replaced them with a single (comptime optimized) `.swizzle(vec, pattern)`, e.g. `.swizzle(vec, "xxyy")`...

If you're interested, the new code is here:
https://github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/blob/main/src/vectors.zig

The readme contains details about the many supported operations:
https://github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/blob/main/doc/vectors.md

Installation instructions in the main repo readme:
https://github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/tree/main

#Zig #Ziglang #ZigThing #Vectors #Refactoring

Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life

https://www.jimmyff.co.uk/blog/beyond-package-management-how-nix-refactored-my-digital-life/

#HackerNews #Nix #Package #Management #Digital #Life #Refactoring #Tech #Tips

What are control flags and why haven't you ditched them yet?

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/11/19/remove-control-flag-refactoring-how-to-simplify-logic/

#programming #coding #refactor #refactoring

"Extract Method" is one mof the most foundational refactoring techniques for us to use.

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2024/03/06/extract-method-refactoring-technique-in-c-what-you-need-to-know/

#CSharp #Refactoring #Coding #Programming

Refactoring code is a critical software engineering skill -- Can you do it?

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2024/02/29/refactoring-c-code-4-essential-techniques-simplified/

#CSharp #DotNet #Coding #Refactoring