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[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 71 points 3 days ago

This does happen a lot, but have you ever had the opposite happen? Where you go into some of your older code, and not only is it nice to read, but you had anticipated that you'd have to make this change later, and so the design makes the change easy?

That's happened to me a few times and all I can say is that it takes days for my self-satisfaction to wane.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

I had this happen recently. Very satisfying.

I did add some more comments and change names, though, since stuff I thought was obvious at the time wasn't totally.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

This actually happened to me last month. I had to touch code from a previous team/project I was on.

I got the call for a collaboration/consult. I forgot everything about it. Jumped in a meeting next day anyway. We pulled up the code. Everything was documented and I had a section with parameters for a "wish" feature that they actually wanted finally. I pointed it out and told them the needful to finish the feature.

Thank you past me. I'll have to buy you a drink.

Then I had a nice 5pm Scotch.

[-] siipale@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

and told them the needful

Sir, don't redeem the code

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

Happens more often the better you get at your craft. I used to say that if you don’t hate the code you wrote last year, you’re not improving. Well, let’s just say I finally stopped hating mine.