You are a developer. You read books, blog posts, and Tweets about the practice of how to construct clean code. Do you truly understand why? I never advocate blindly following. Rather, I encourage you to ask: Why should I care about writing clean,
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We make things harder than they need to be. We take a basic concept and then diverge into a sea of complexity. This human behavior burrows deep into our thinking, implementations, and explanations. This drive towards complexity makes us ineffective
Your Code Sucks. Time to Clean it Up
Your code sucks. I remember the first time a mentor told me that. I was crushed. I was so focused on getting it working and done that I hadn't taken the time to build quality into it. Shoot, I didn't even know what that was or where to start. Thirty