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Simon Egersand 🎈 · 2022-05-06T05:27:39.429Z

As a software engineer or developer, it’s important to build good habits. Especially if you're at the beginning of your career. Good habits speed you and your team up and help you write maintainable code. Good Habits of a Software Engineer Know Your ...

Thanks for these wonderful tips. I do think engineers who are just starting (like me for example), should read tips like these.

Few tips are common that we often forget about them.

And that’s a reminder is really handy 👍

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It's a great article. I especially liked the points on only abstracting when there are at least three examples, asking questions to become a domain expert, and focusing on valuable code as opposed to perfect code

Thanks, Obinna! 🙂

Perfect and very well said! 🤘

Learned new ways and made sure my way is alright. Thanks.

Golden advice right here

Don’t Over-Engineer

The majority of problems already have tools to solve them 💡

That's for sharing Simon Egersand 🎈 🎉

I liked the simplicity and to-the-point tips! Thank s for writing it Simon Egersand 🎈.

I'm glad you liked it Eleftheria Batsou! 😊

I used to use Visual Studio / C++ almost exclusively back in the 90s and knew dozens of keystrokes. Now I have to jump between many IDEs constantly and I'm forced to use the mouse. Even with VS I apply the old VS6 keystrokes and find many of them are broken.

That sounds annoying. Have you considered learning vim or emacs bindings to use across all IDEs? I'm sure there are vim and emacs bindings for all modern IDEs.

And you could also invest time into setting them all up according to how you like it, but that of course takes time.

Why do you have to use so many IDEs?

Simon Egersand 🎈 I've been in the same company for 20 years and worked on so many projects for pharma automation that I'm now split 50/50 between working on new products and upgrading old projects. Languages, databases, devices.

Thanks for sharing these tips, Simon Egersand 🎈 learned quite a few things

I'm glad to hear that, Victor Eke ! 😊

Learned new things today, and would try to inculcate them in my career. Thanks for sharing!

You're welcome, Cess. Hope you learned something new!

Great article! Loved the read and great things to take away from it! 👍

Thank you! I appreciate you <3

Awesome article! I learned five new things today.

I would like to add also taking care of yourself.

It can be easy to neglect taking a short break to stretch or step away from the screen

I 100% agree with you, Stefan! That's not specific to software engineers but also applies to all professions where you spent a lot of time in front of the screen.

I love overengineering on personal side projects to learn but I agree with the overall sentiment.

Yeah, completely agree! Overengineering is fun but at work, you need to consider other people and focus on writing maintainable software.

Overengineering is very common at work too! :)

Vincent Tsen Unfortunately, yes! :)

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