Introduction
This time it won’t be my favorite rant about certain operating system. Instead, just a few thoughts about the psychology of bad code.
The broken windows theory, an academic theory proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, is a metaphor for disorder within neighborhoods. Their theory links disorder and incivility within a community to subsequent occurrences of serious crime. – Encyclopedia Britannica
The Tale of Shrubbery Code
Once, in the past, me and my team had a discussion about event handlers in front-end code. We looked in bewilderment at some ancient code. Something similar to this Vanilla JS (I’m a big fan of Vanilla JS, to be clear):
