Re:There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code
by hinkley on Saturday January 29, 2022 @02:27PM
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When I was young I wrote code so I could understand it. Everyone goes faster when the code looks like how they expect it to look. Some of these 10x people are really good, others have mental models that are alien, and so nobody else can touch their stuff because none of it makes a lick of sense to anybody else. These are 3x devs that make everyone else .3x devs.
Writing code for me made me indispensable, then it made me a bottleneck with a stream of uncomfortable distractions in the form of people queuing up for me to answer questions or fix bugs or implement features. It was exhausting, but I was happy enough. That is, until there was a cooler project I wasn’t allowed to transfer to because I was indispensable.
Figure out how to write code so other people can read it. Figure out how to write code so other people can modify it. It looks a bit like clean code, but sometimes isn’t. Occasionally it can be quite different.
Writing code for me made me indispensable, then it made me a bottleneck with a stream of uncomfortable distractions in the form of people queuing up for me to answer questions or fix bugs or implement features. It was exhausting, but I was happy enough. That is, until there was a cooler project I wasn’t allowed to transfer to because I was indispensable.
Figure out how to write code so other people can read it. Figure out how to write code so other people can modify it. It looks a bit like clean code, but sometimes isn’t. Occasionally it can be quite different.