[RyanMcGreal]

After a little over ten years of daily full-time coding, I'm finally at the point where I can go back to code I wrote three or six months ago and not think, WTF? I'm by no means a great programmer, certainly not compared to some of the brilliant coders on HN, with whose work I'm constantly inspired and humbled; but as Dirty Harry famously said, "A man's got to know his limitations," and I think I'm pretty realistic in that regard.

To get better: keep noticing your mistakes and taking them into account on subsequent activities; keep modifying your workflow to incorporate and automate good practices and to remove the potential for preventable mistakes; keep taking opportunities to clean and refactor old code when you have to face it; keep reading other people's code (especially those brilliant coders kicking around HN) and learning from it; and keep pushing yourself to get better. Rinse and repeat for as long as you spend programming.