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Re:HTML First – Six principles for building simple, maintain... by fsckboy on Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:19PM (#38244166)
I love maintaining and cleaning up code (I will insist on cleaning up according to my taste even if it already works fine in production, just like when I carve the turkey I eat some crispy and fatty pieces hot from the oven) It takes a great weight off my short term memory and ADD that I know that the code already worked, so if it stops working, I did it, recently.

But here's the thing, hot-shot devs, and hot-shot dev wannabes look down on maintenance; and humans are social creatures, me included. So I'm not going to do a job for you that you look down on, unless you carry me in (and out) on a sedan chair.

Same for writing doc, I'm good at it and enoy it, but there's no pleasure in doing something that other people don't really value.

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