Re:Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
by jv22222 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:30PM
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> I know this thing better than you
Whenever I hand code over I ask, does it make sense? Usually they say something like, yep looks easy.
I used to think it was because I was a dumb ass and only wrote simple stuff, but finally realized it's because I spend large effort on making the code read like english. (Good function names, good variable names, code that looks like logical short sentences, etc.)
All this to say, if you make code it's own wiki, you can avoid "I know this thing better than you" quite effectively, and complex code can be made to seem quite simple.
You may already doing that, but thought I'd share in case it's helpful in any way!
Whenever I hand code over I ask, does it make sense? Usually they say something like, yep looks easy.
I used to think it was because I was a dumb ass and only wrote simple stuff, but finally realized it's because I spend large effort on making the code read like english. (Good function names, good variable names, code that looks like logical short sentences, etc.)
All this to say, if you make code it's own wiki, you can avoid "I know this thing better than you" quite effectively, and complex code can be made to seem quite simple.
You may already doing that, but thought I'd share in case it's helpful in any way!