Best Practice: Code Like No One’s Watching

When writing code, it’s often easy to trigger the “freeze” response from the “fight, flight, freeze, or fawn” list of trauma responses.

“I bet I could make this SQL query more performant…”

“It feels like I could use a design pattern here…”

“This variable needs a better name…”

There are multiple issues at play here:

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