Good professional programmers write boring code. Great professional programmers write really boring code. Clever & obscure code is written by selfish people who would rather entertain themselves than be masters of their craft
We've all heard of mansplaining, but have you heard of catsplaining?
Catsplaining: when you explain something to a coworker while staring them directly in the eyes and slowly knocking their stuff off of their desk
Audio and video quality on video calls is the new business suit
Having crappy audio and video is the equivalent to showing up to the office in sweatpants and no shirt
I think our industry is ready for a resurgence of simple programming. I feel like a lot of modern software is a Rube Goldberg machine, frameworks on top of libraries, embedding in frameworks based on every changing libraries. The art of straightforward architecture has been lost
So early in my career, I put my name in all my code files. Years later I came across some code that had my name in it, but it was a butchered horrible chimera file, that only had a bit of my code. I stopped putting my name in my code after that
How often, during a meeting, do you stop the speaker to tell them you don't understand what they just said? I do this all the time, and it always seems to surprise people. "I don't understand" is a powerful sentence
