Not exactly a programming trick, but adjacent enough. Learn your tools. Learn the features of your IDE. Learn the flags and know and understand what your makef

Not exactly a programming trick, but adjacent enough. Learn your tools. Learn the features of your IDE. Learn the flags and know and understand what your makefile or runner is doing. So many times I've asked people that and they absolutely have no idea except, 'I run make' or 'I run grunt/gulp'