Empathy

The answer to, "What idiot did this!?" is almost always, "A smart, well-intentioned person making tradeoffs you hadn't even considered."

— Jason Specland (@jayspectech) December 14, 2016

A related process I’ve been through fairly often:

1. Why in the world did someone write this crazy code?
2. git blame the-crazy-code.c
3. blowery 01234bc function hereBeDragons() {
4. Sigh.

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