THE STRUGGLES OF A YOUNG DEVELOPER

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Young developers often focus too much on premature optimization, which leads to over-engineering things too early. It's better instead to focus on writing clear, concise, and testable code. This author tells a story where they wrote over-engineered code as a young developer, but when it came time to debug it months later, they could no longer understand the code they had written.