You're going to want to follow the "campsite rule" everywhere you go, and also sneak in positive refactors into your feature changes (if business is not willing to commit time to improving the maintainability of the codebase).
Read up on good software design principles. I don't know you experience level, but for instance, everyone agrees that appropriate abstraction, and encapsulation make code easier and more enjoyable to work with, and will let you run tests on isolated sections of the code without having to do a full end-to-end testsuite run.
Having tests that you trust that, especially if they execute quickly will increase your "developer velocity" and allow you to code fearlessly, knowing that your changes are reasonably safe to deploy. (Bugs and escaped defects will happen, but you just fix them and continue on.)
The fact that documentation and comments can't "fail" if the underlying code changes is a real problem. I've even worked at places which dictated that comments had to go directly above or even beside (inline) with the code they were explaining, so they would show up in any patches changing the code.
What do you think happened? Yup, people would change code and leave the outdated (and wrong) comment untouched, directly to the right of the code they just changed.
Hell, I was one of those people, so I get how it can happen.
I think it really does come down to individuals. Neither approach is going to work for everyone.
Not to oversimplify, but I think a big component is that extraverts feel more connected in person, whereas introverts will thrive when they can more easily regulate draining social encounters.
Nice!!! I actually just submitted a technical takehome, so🤞they liked what Ruby I could remember.
Is your technical oral, live coding, or takehome? Feel free to PM me if you want someone to bounce ideas off of. I've had some experience in all of them.
Who wants to be rich, though? Only assholes or fear junkies imo. The vast vast vast vast vastvast majority of people only want to get along and get by.
Yeah that's how I see it too. If the fediverse becomes mainstream/commercial then I'm happy more people are off the big closed platforms, but I don't want any part of the pro-capital ad culture if they start reproducing that here.
I think small private groups of vetted members are likely to become even more popular if that's the case. It would be a shame for search and discoverability, but if an open connection to the web leads inexorably to bots you really can't tell from people...
Kind of overstating it but it would be like an internet dark age in a way. Most conversations encrypted, unarchived, known only to a few. Like you were saying, conversations like this, on the open web, just wouldn't happen anymore if the internet is just for business, shopping, etc