🔗 How I write code that I don’t hate reading a week later

Let’s be honest — sometimes our code is like a cryptic message from our past selves.

You open a file, stare at a function, and say:

“Who wrote this garbage?”

Then you realize: it was you… last Tuesday.

The truth is: writing “working code” is easy. Writing readable code — code you won’t hate revisiting in a week, month, or year — is a different skill entirely.

Over time, I’ve adopted a few habits that make my future self silently thank my past self. Here’s how I do it.