Emby

I have never seen home screen ads on mine…

Only thing I see is the continue prompt before watching

I wanted to use words a layman would know.

It’s the cleaning up of code by making it easier to read or rewriting something in a less convoluted way. Originally you just wanted it to be done quick so you coded it in a sloppy way. Now you have “debt” that needs to be fixed. You don’t really gain anything by cleaning it, so it wastes your time instead of implementing something new.

A developer is one that just codes. An engineer is one that mocks up their feature, leads meetings to explain what they are going to do and debates with others about the proposed implementation, codes it, tests it thoroughly, then answers any questions about what they made months later and diagnoses issues that QA found. Maybe you’re just a code monkey, but my job is a lot more.

But at the same time you can over comment. If your variables are self described it’s not needed.

Tunnel vision. I get this all the time. Actually more beneficial to go for a walk and not work.

Depending on how complex it could be as short as two sentences or just bullet points. Just enough to kick start my memory.

Not code. I keep a text file “work_log.txt” on my desktop that has the date and what I worked on that day. Useful for scrum too.

Today’s:

• Finished the modal

• Solved the swallowing of the exception with parsing errors

• Next: Review modal code and test

Every Friday I take 2 min to write a detailed note for the future me so I remember what I was doing. No matter how simple the task was.