What I keep forgetting about timeouts
Priya R. · Nov 28
Every time I revisit a project after six months, I find at least one place where past-me wrote a comment that present-me has now stopped trusting. Comments rot faster than code.
The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests in full, including the parts that weren't theirs.
If a config file has more than a dozen options, half of them aren't being used. The other half are being used in ways the original author didn't predict.
I write smaller commits than I used to. The commits are uglier in isolation and much easier to read in sequence.
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