README, not

(Thanks to Facundo Tuesca for the name inspiration). If you’re like me, you spend a lot of your working day (and a good chunk of your personal time) reading code online. Increasingly, that means accidentally reading a lot of “slop” 1 . Personally, slop isn’t annoying per se 2 : it’s okay for personal software 3 , for example, to be slop. What makes slop annoying is the feeling of being…