the boilerplate tax: fourteen entities, an 890-line router, and go

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

there’s a file in mojodojo called dojo.go that declares six sentinel errors. two of them are misspelled: "coulnd't create dojo" and "dojo not foud". i knew they were misspelled when i wrote them. and then i wrote the same six errors, with the same two typos, thirteen more times — "coulnd't create belt", "fighter not foud", "coulnd't count fees" — because every entity got its own file, and i was copy-pasting the last one.

nobody re-reads the ninth near-identical file. that’s the whole story of this post.

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the boilerplate tax: fourteen entities, an 890-line router, and go