I talk a lot about how you can’t be a great developer without great communication skills, but I don’t think people grok how _directly_ your communication skills are reflected in your codebase. Let me give you an example.
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Do you know why Hoarders isn’t on the air anymore? It turns out that hauling everything away and cleaning up the house doesn’t fix people’s habits that led to the hoarding. Most of the show’s partipants, after the show was over, slowly went back to a hoarded house.
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I distinctly remember the episode featuring a couple who: • Recognized they were hoarders • Decided to move to have a reason throw out stuff • Bought a second house • Owned two houses full of stuff I felt so bad for them
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We’ve started to refer to these as “aspirational clutter”: - Unused code - Commented out code - Ignored tests It’s surprisingly difficult to convince folks that we can just delete it, but we usually stick with “git has it if you want it back”.
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