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Can you talk about some of the bad habits you picked up (and maybe how you could have avoided them at the time)?

• alashley 5y ago
  Sure, here are a few off the top of my head: - My Git commits/changesets were huge. There were so many code changes to so many files that it was very difficult to review. I learned how to write better commit messages and streamline my commits a few years later. - I ignored best practices for the sake of getting things done. Programming wisdom and best practices seemed like overkill at the time, as I only measured my work by the number of lines of code I wrote. I needed to find the middle ground between quality and productivity. - I organized projects/files inconsistently. This was because no one else had to work with the repo at the time. - I was bad at managing expectations of stakeholders and estimating tasks. Because I was inexperienced, I would over-promise and under-deliver at times. As I went along, I realized better ways of communicating what could and couldn't be done within a sprint. Now, I think when someone asks for a feature -- the answer should generally be yes, with whatever caveats/blockers that are foreseen at the time.