Be the maintainer.
Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Always code and comment in such a way that if someone a few notches junior picks up the code, they will take pleasure in reading and learning from it.
Code For The Maintainer Principle
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