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Use your sense of SMELL to diagnose computer errors: the new “smell checker” spell checker is a revolution in error notification!

Mar 9, 2020

Computers, UI / UX

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Background: In programming, there is the notion of “code smell”—a subtle indication that something is terribly wrong in a piece of source code, but without any (obvious) actual mistake. For example, if you saw the following: print(“E”); print(“RR”); print(“OR”); print(“!”); instead of print(“ERROR!”); that would be a good indication that something extremely bizarre was going…