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JohnPostlethwait / fixme

fixme

Scan for NOTE, OPTIMIZE, TODO, HACK, XXX, FIXME, and BUG comments within your source, and print them to stdout so you can deal with them.

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209GitHub stars
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Scan for NOTE, OPTIMIZE, TODO, HACK, XXX, FIXME, and BUG comments within your source, and print them to stdout so you can deal with them.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-02-26 19:35:25 UTC to 2017-07-05 09:43:47 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsFeb 202017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 242017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 3

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 202017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 272017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 62017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 132017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 32017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 102017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 172017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 242017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 12017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC000
May 82017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC000
May 152017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC000
May 222017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC000
May 292017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 52017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 122017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 192017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 262017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 32017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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On the other hand, if you are using `TODO` comments within your code, a good idea is to place something like the `fixme` CLI [0] into a prepush hook [1] so that it is always highly visible. The length of this output then acts as an intuitive measure of accrued technical debt and can be leveraged within a team to get time to fix the underlying problems. [0] https://github.com/JohnPostlethwait/fixme [1] https://github.com/typicode/husky
In A set of best practices for JavaScript projects
Just in case you didn't know: If you used portions of Johns code, you agreed to the terms of his license. As such, you're required to include Johns name in the copyright notice, as the license specifies that thte copyright notice should be reproduced in full. You can add your own name above that, but you still have to keep the complete original copyright notice with Johns name in there [1]. Not doing that is not nice, and in the worst case could get you in legal trouble. Original license: https://github.com/JohnPostlethwait/fixme/blob/master/LICENS... Your license: https://github.com/ahmadassaf/code-notes/blob/master/LICENSE... [1] http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17823...
In Show HN: Summarise all code annotation like TODO or FIXME

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