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Sometimes you encounter some questionable code and you wonder: "What idiot wrote this?" So you `git blame` and you find out "Oh, I'm that idiot."



I have been in this situation and tried to remember what was going on while I wrote the questionable code. It frequently came down to a day full of interruptions and context switching. Also motivation plays a tremendous role, I know that whenever I have to work on a code base I don’t understand and don’t want to have anything to do with it long term, it ruins my ability to focus.




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