On consistency

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One of the most important traits of a good software developer, in my opinion, is consistency. Consistency is needed in so many different aspects of a daily programmers life, and yet it can be easily forgotten when hard times come.

Consistent learning

This one is, I’d say, the most obvious. If you want to get on top, and stay there, you have to consistently invest your time and energy to learn new things. Be it new technologies, new concepts or a new version of a language in which you consider yourself as an expert, you have to constantly devote some time and energy to be able to grasp it. Constant and consistent wish for learning new things is something that puts you on a good path of becoming a better software engineer.

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Code reviews – checklist

While writing the post on code reviews, it occurred to me that I could also write about the things I look at while doing it and provide you with a checklist that you could use to perform your own reviews. I will try to explain why I find each of these points important, but you can use or modify the list however it suits you.

So, without further ado, here is the list.

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