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I can definitely maybe do this! (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've had this too. It was cured by being forced to work with Java and enhance a PHP-framework. Dear god, the php-framework.
But it literally increased my mental "stack size". My shell and python scripts also got better.

Ah, and also keep the "do one thing and do it good" tenet also to functions.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Getting good at reading bad code does seem like a worthwhile skill