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by pizlonator 2673 days ago
Read a lot of code!

Spend time reading code in the codebase even if it doesn’t seem to make sense, even if you don’t think you’ll need to know that part of the code. Keep reading until it starts to make sense.

My trick has always been to just read. I even avoid tools that automatically navigate the code because I like to just read it until I know where things are.