I thought this technique was such common knowledge that I kept waiting for the punchline in the article. It was a good reminder that even the simple stuff deserves to be written about and revisited every so often.
>>>The great thing about TODO comments is that, as a very old programming trick, they are already supported out of the box by most tools IntelliJ, SonarQube, Rails, CodeClimate and I guess many others. Only one day after I refactored to TODO comments, a team mate fixed one that had appeared in his IDE’s TODO tab