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🔥 10 Tips for Developers according to Twitter

James Turner on April 18, 2019

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash A few weeks back during a #DevDiscuss, I asked the question "What is the one tip you would give another programm...
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chenge

Mostly simple, sometimes fast. -- by Chenge

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Sanket Patel

Discipline is more important than motivation - by @swyx #NoZeroDay

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Michael Rice

Love it :-) For me, I would have swapped No. 1 and No. 10 but I'm sure EVERYONE has their own ordering. Thanks for taking the time to put it together!!

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Andreas Jakof • Edited

My all-time-favorite: Code, as if the person ending up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath, who knows where you live. Code for readability! (John F. Wood)

I just took the liberty to phrase it gender neutral, since John used „guy“.

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ShaliniPanchal

oww...! Nice one:)

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Laurie

Aww thanks :)

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Massimo Artizzu

Don't code when you're hungry, thirsty, tired, preoccupied or... you have to go to the bathroom!

Fix your needs before that, or else you might not achieve sufficient concentration 😄

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Brett Madrid

Don't try to write clever code. Try to write code for clarity, even if it takes a few lines longer.