Good news, I hate my code again.

In 2005 I stopped hating the code I wrote. I felt I had reached a milestone in my career. After 5 years, I one day looked at some code I wrote 6 months ago and went “Man… I actually like this, and can understand it!” That often never happened. My gut instinct was to just rewrite. Suddenly I could start using things I wrote awhile ago in new projects, with confidence and only minor modifications.

Yesterday, rewriting an SDK I wrote 4 years ago, and I would not write it like that today. That tells me I’ve made a lot of progress and changed in 4 years. Skill progress! 😁

I’m glad I keep the tactic I had in 2005, and that’s just keep doing what I’ve been doing and keep improving.