[_benj]

I think intentionally writing shitty code is not a good advice, but it does help with taking us out of the rut of perfectionism and over-engineering stuff!

For me I try to follow two principles:

First, write boring code, and I mean boring, long variable names, no syntax sugar, no clever combination of boolean chains... code that I would use to teach a beginner in the language (or more aptly, future me) how to start coding!

The second is plan to write things twice. This one is a double-edged sword inasmuch as it can help to further clarify or make even more boring the code, or be the place to start adding "optimization" and "cleverness" in the code... I try to stick to the former.

Some of the most valuable code I've written I would call either "hacks" or "scripts", not code, but nonetheless, it solved a real problem instead of being beautiful/elegant or whatever