About a year ago, I came across an off-topic quip on Reddit that was supposed to be a humorous reference to the phenomenon where beginner programmers first disc

About a year ago, I came across an off-topic quip on Reddit that was supposed to be a humorous reference to the phenomenon where beginner programmers first discover they're unable to understand the code they'd written weeks or even days before. It made me realize that I haven't had a WTF moment like that in something like 5+ years, and I'd forgotten the phenomenon even existed. Some time before, I set out to outline a disciplined approach for writing code that resembles the practices in the article and commit to following it, regardless of whatever strain of laziness I'm afflicted with in the moment telling me to just break the rules and let it slide. Contributing to Mozilla in a time before GitHub was a big part of my coming-of-age story, and I credit exposure to the Mozilla code review process and a lot of the other good practices as the number one reason for this—as well as the source of my annoyance when I try digging into some project that I'd like to contribute to, only to find that the maintainers are basically flying the thing by the seat of their pants.