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There was a guy I worked with that tended to want to unilaterally make sweeping changes.
Like, "we need the user to be able to enter their location" -> "cool. Done. I also switched the dependency manager from pip to poetry".
Only a little bit of exaggeration
Some people, like me, are not built to be developers. I can sculpt code in any language I need for whatever problem I need to solve, but maintaining code over a long period of time, with others, is not my thing.
The drive to do additional changes is just too high and the tendency for typos or obvious logic errors is too common. (There is one little improvement. It's right there. One line up. Just change it now while you are in there....)
I am not stupid and regard myself as a decent engineer but my brain is just wired in a more chaotic way. For some things that is ok. For developing code on a team, not so much.
Security is the field I am most comfortable with because it allows for creative chaos. Rule breaking is encouraged. "Scripting" is much more applicable and temporary.
When using git and are working on a feature, and suddenly want to work on something else, you can use
git stashso git remembers your changes and is able to restore them when you are done. There is alsogit add -pthis allows you to stage only certain lines of a file, this allows you to keep commits to a single feature if you already did another change that you didn't commit (this is kind of error prone, since you have to make sure that the commit includes exactly the things that you want it to include, so this solution should be avoided). But the easiest way is when you get the feeling that you have completed a certain task towards your goal and that you can move on to another task, to commit. But if you fail you can also change the history in git, so if you haven't pushed yet, you can move the commits around or, if you really need to, edit past commits and break them into multiple.Instructions unclear. Stash is 35 tall and I'm scared to look at what's been fermenting at the bottom.
Only 35? That’s rookie numbers.