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If you can tie these to automated alerts that's great. But there's no need to automate everything, "Do things that don't scale".

I make these comments searchable (they always start with "# TODO: "). And then once a month (or when you're bored) you can go through these and reevaluate them.

Yes, it's a non-scaleable manual process. And I absolutely don't care because it takes less than 30 minutes each month. No amount of effort invested in automation will ever pay off, so I'm pretty happy to do it manually.

I would love these TODO comments to automatically create issues in Github so that we could also discuss these, but unfortunately all of the Github Actions I've tried fail miserably when lines are moved or comments are edited.




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