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20 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 0 stories, 20 comments · first 2009-02-12 · latest 2026-08-24

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  1. …school of thought follows this pattern. Look at his projects, I personally find them unreadable. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
    comment by farlight · 2026-08-24 · in My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
  2. I was completely ready to agree with you, but the code that I browsed actually looked really good. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness... Yup, OK, got it. The FitnessContext looks a bit rough, but no big deal.…
    comment by snapdaddy · 2025-02-26 · in Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
  3. It is very instructional to read the source code to FitNesse framework. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse You can see how all his ideas come together into a ball of hundreds of almost empty classes, and gems such as "catch Throwable".
    comment by Scubabear68 · 2025-02-25 · in Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
  4. Do you mean commits to the project like this crap: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/commit/d6034080a04c740c... This level of pointless obfuscation would not survive a code review at any sane dev team.
    comment by ahoka · 2025-02-25 · in Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
  5. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
    comment by brodo · 2025-02-25 · in Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
  6. You’re right. The source is at https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
    comment by buescher · 2024-07-28 · in Beyond Clean Code
  7. …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitNesse and http://fitnesse.org/ , uses its own hash function, at https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness... . The Python equivalent is: import base64 repetitions = 3 lock_bytes = b"Like…
    comment by dalke · 2023-04-05 · in Is there a feasible preimage attack for any hash function today?
  8. …took an inordinate number of clicks to find the modern source code, which has an unusual license: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/LICENSE.txt ("Common Public License Version 1.0"); a cursory search seems to imply it's the…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-09-05 · in Fit: Framework for Integrated Test
  9. …The only known project that he contributed (and constantly mentioned in his videos) - FitNesse ( https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse ), but 59 commits doesn't make him look like an expert.
    comment by megapoliss · 2022-07-04 · in Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)
  10. The only one I can think of that may be done with TDD is Uncle Bobs fitnesse: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse . Another resource that takes you through a practical approach of TDD is the book “Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided…
    comment by cenny · 2022-05-02 · in Where are open-source projects that I can learn BDD/TDD?
  11. …he preaches in large and complex projects that we can look at the source and learn from. [1]: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
    comment by yblu · 2021-11-28 · in Books that changed my career as a software engineer
  12. …maintained that codebase since then. You can check out the code for the current version at https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse , or browse the code in a Monaco editor using https://github1s.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/HEAD/src/ . (I have…
    comment by roryokane · 2021-05-28 · in It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
  13. …newPage() { return new HtmlPage(); } public String toString() { return getClass().getName(); } } https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/3bec390e6f8e9e3411... Really, how does this file even justify its existence? Its a subsidy courtesy…
    comment by aazaa · 2021-05-25 · in It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
  14. …a password which generated the same hash. Take a look - it still uses the same hash algorithm! https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness ... What fresh hell is this? private byte[] encrypt(byte[] lock, byte[] key) { int…
    comment by tptacek · 2021-02-17 · in Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)
  15. …a password which generated the same hash. Take a look - it still uses the same hash algorithm! https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness... These meant the system was totally p0wnable. And I found a few public servers…
    comment by dalke · 2021-02-16 · in Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)
  16. You can see what look like his contributions to FitNesse here https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/commits?author=unclebob
    comment by MaurizioPz · 2020-05-29 · in REPL Driven Design
  17. …green refactor cycle, in fact I would suspect most of his other code on github will be the same. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
    comment by kstenson · 2014-03-01 · in Ask HN: Examples of famous OSS created using red-green-refactor TDD?
  18. …this code retreat. [1] http://vimeo.com/7762511 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Bob [3] https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse [4] http://cleancoder.posterous.com/stub6-restoring-the-trust [5] http://cleancoder.posterous.com/software-c…
    comment by DanielRibeiro · 2011-11-04 · in Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd
  19. "Check out his code: http://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/tree/master It's really clean. " It is decent certainly, but nothing very ground breaking (imo) which is what "wizard" would imply. In no field of endeavor I know do we call people…
    comment by plinkplonk · 2009-02-12 · in Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark
  20. …I agree in general, but I was talking about Robert Martin in particular. Check out his code: http://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/tree/master It's really clean. While the guys you mention have been very effective and productive programmers…
    comment by mattmcknight · 2009-02-12 · in Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark