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Sign your code. Doing this attaches your reputation to your code. Anybody reading it knows to expect a certain level of quality given it is written by you, and
by ratherlongname 7y ago
Sign your code.
Doing this attaches your reputation to your code. Anybody reading it knows to expect a certain level of quality given it is written by you, and you get the much needed motivation to write good code.
Amazing piece of advice I picked from the Pragmatic Programmer.
- amenod 7y agoThis is an incredible advice - from my experience I know it works, though I never formulated it this way (or even thought about this). Thank you for spelling it out!
- giancarlostoro 7y agoWell that's what version control does, so if you remind yourself that when someone does a git blame later, and they see who wrote the awful code and dread your existence, you might want to fix it up.