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Yeah, it's humbling enough when you are reviewing some old code and thinking "what idiot wrote this" only to git blame and realize it was you. What's even more
by dasil003 3y ago
Yeah, it's humbling enough when you are reviewing some old code and thinking "what idiot wrote this" only to git blame and realize it was you. What's even more jarring when you find some code, surprised the capability/feature even exists, then git blame and realize again it was you (this time hopefully with a pat on your own back because of how well it's written). Yes this has happened to me.
- JohnFen 3y agoAll of the code I wrote more than a year or two before the time I look at it strikes me as being embarrassing. I hope this is always true, because I think it says that I have grown as a programmer over that time.
- roflyear 3y agoI recently had the opposite experience: encountered some code from 2017(!!!) that was really solid. Few "silly" things but the important stuff was there. I realized that when I did that project I "had the time to care" which is not the case lately!
- LordDragonfang 3y agoNothing beats the feeling of having a coworker suggest what might be a substantial change to a codebase you haven't touched in months, only for you to look at the code and realize that the way you wrote it makes it a one- or two-line change.