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by tetha 1079 days ago
Mh, I'm not new anymore, but there is one thing that's a huge confidence booster.

Someone coming around with a pull request going "Heyjo. I needed new X in your project. And, I looked at it and X and tests for X just slotted right in there. Can you take a quick look if that's right?"

I consider these easily and obviously extensible workhorse code bases my best work, even if after a certain point, I may have built like 10% of the thing and shouldn't consider it my thing anymore.