How I became a better programmer (2017)
My comment is a little tongue in cheek but Here is "How I became a more productive by becoming a worse programmer"<p>- I stopped worrying about best practices and just do it.<p>- I hardly refactor my code unless I'm using the same thing for the fifth time. I just copy-paste it instead.<p>- I never think about optimizing code until I really really need to.<p>- I write what gets the shit done quickly. I don't care if writing a Class would have been better than a function.<p>- I love old boring technologies and believe you can still make amazing websites with just PHP and jQuery.<p>- I don't come up with clever one-liners anymore. I write a 10 line <i>for</i> loop which I could easily replace with a clever one-line code golf.<p>- Instead of writing my own code, I usually search Stackoverflow first to see if I can do some copy-paste it instead.