Good post. For me what helped most is definitely to get into the habit of reading more code. It is not something I did all the time previously. But coming in w

Good post. For me what helped most is definitely to get into the habit of reading more code. It is not something I did all the time previously. But coming in with a goal and then just reading code tends to help a lot, whereas I normally lean more on my coworkers when getting familiar with a new codebase (where do we do X?) simply getting into the habit of reading more code helped. I think an important realization is that there is (hardly ever) a deadline. You can take your time to get as comfortable as you wish with the code before you start. As a PS: I have seen this blog a few times, I gotta say I love the orange bars around the post.