[pmontra]

I write simpler code because it's easier to understand and maintain, for me and coworkers. It took so long to write like one thinks a junior dev would write :-)

Another change is a consequence of being polyglot (mainly Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir now plus some C and PHP.) I can see where language and library designers go out of their way to make things unnecessarily complicated, or where the idiomatic way of a language is stubbornly complex. I try to stay idiomatic because it helps maintenance but I pick simple solutions anytime I can.

Finally, as the other reply states, I got better and more verbose at naming. One good name could be worth 100 words in a comment. It's like placing a big red Stop button in the middle of a dashboard instead of hiding it, small and black, under the desk.

Ah, I write down a lot of things in wikis. Coworkers thank me but they still don't write anything. They're about 10 years younger than me, they'll get there too (to document stuff).