By skyforbes 
How I Learned to Read Other People’s Code
If you asked most people to explain a random codebase written by someone else, they’d probably stare at the screen for hours (half understanding, half pretending).
And I used to be no different 🙂
Reading other people’s code always felt like trying to read a novel in a foreign language.
You could recognize the words, but not the intent behind them xD
But over time, I realized that being a good developer isn’t just about writing elegant code. It’s about reading and understanding it (especially when you’re working in a team or contributing to open source projects)
Story Time!
The First Time I Opened an Open-Source Repository
I still remember my first dive into open source.
I opened a GitHub repository with thousands of stars, thinking I’d quickly “fix a bug” or “add a feature.”
Ten minutes later, I was lost in layers of imports, modules, and helper functions that all seemed to call each…
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