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Censorship is getting out of hand (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

I've been tempted to create a bot that does nothing but search comments in code for misspelled words and create pull requests for them.

If it stays in comments, little chance in breaking a working codebase and I'd have an insane amount of commits and contributions to a wide variety of codebases for my resume.

I'll never be a top tier coder. But I might make management.

[-] Keenuts@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

In case that wasn’t satire, please don’t 🥲 A small typo in a comment is not a big issue, and even if the PR is straightforward, a maintainer still has to take some time reviewing it, which takes time away from fixing actual bugs 😢

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

But think of the gains!

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Simple changes require only simple reviews.

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 month ago

A better use of your time is to improve documentation. Developers generally hate documentation so it's often in need of improvement. Rewrite confusing sentences. Add tutorials that are missing. Things like that. You don't necessarily have to be a good developer or even understand the code of the project; you just have to have some knowledge of the project as an end user.