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When I Read My Three Years Old Code

documentation Technical debt Legacy code Code maintenance Spaghetti code Code comments Clean code Variable naming Self-loathing

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When I Read My Three Years Old Code

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Looking at your old code and deciding the only rational solution is to remove your brain, wash it with gasoline, and hope for the best. That feeling when your past self left you a cryptic masterpiece with zero comments and variable names like 'x', 'temp', and 'iSwearThisWorks'. The gasoline is probably more for drinking at this point.

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