{"id":124,"date":"2008-07-10T17:46:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:46:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T21:46:43","slug":"willfull-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2008\/07\/10\/willfull-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Willfull Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, writing good code is really hard. But other times, writing good code is so darn easy you shouldn’t even have to think about it. In fact, it shouldn’t even be called “good code” — in these cases there should never be anything else, so we’ll just call it “code”.<\/p>\n

For instance, if I see another line of code that does this:<\/p>\n

$foo = isset($foo) ? $foo : 'default value';<\/pre>\n
I think I’ll kill someone.<\/p>\n
Let me clear something up for you: using the ternary operator does not<\/em> make you cool.<\/strong> However, assigning a variable to itself makes you very uncool.<\/p>\n
if (!isset($foo)) $foo = 'default value';<\/pre>\n
Now why is that so hard to write?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes, writing good code is really hard. But other times, writing good code is so darn easy you shouldn’t even have to think about it. In fact, it shouldn’t even be called “good code” — in these cases there should never be anything else, so we’ll just call it “code”. For instance, if I see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliance","category-php","category-programming","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}