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by _asummers 2905 days ago
Even having the entirety of the original dev team there, time takes its toll on recollection of reasoning behind some of the strange decisions made in something that would warrant a rewrite. Much preferable to not having them, of course.
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Something I do is if the code looks weird or is rather small for how much work went into it, I leave a comment that says why this was done... just so I can remind myself in 6 months when I go "who the fuck wrote this garbage... oh, me."