Dear new developer, I was out for a run the other day. People walk dogs along my running route and I had noticed a few days before a bag of dog poop. I had run on by, assuming someone was planning to grab it on the way back from their walk. But then I saw … Continue reading Pick up the dog poop
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Always leave the code better than you found it
Dear new developer, I've spent a lot of my time maintaining working code. I think that is more typical of software developers than working in greenfield development. Yes, there are definitely jobs where you are writing more new code than maintaining, upgrading, bug fixing and improving old code (startups without product market fit being one, … Continue reading Always leave the code better than you found it

