# Principles of the 1x programmer

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**Created:** [9 November 2021 22:23 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/principles-of-the-1x-programmer/28473 "2021-11-09T22:23:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [10 November 2021 01:13 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/principles-of-the-1x-programmer/28473/3 "2021-11-10T01:13:39Z")

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I’ve bookmarked this to read later! But quickly wanted to say…

> [@timClicks](#):
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> Your future self will not have the same cognitive context that you do currently.

This is so true, and why I try to force myself to write comments or make method/function names as explicit as I can.

Only thing is sometimes I am too lazy! :icon_redface:

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Btw, if on thread creation you post the link to your blog in the title (you can edit it to whatever you want afterwards) it will become the ‘featured link’ for the thread, and this is what shows on the Devtalk homepage. When a user posts these (so rather than one of our automated/bot threads) we remove the `rel=nofollow` attribute to help with your blog’s SEO :003:

I have done it for you manually for this thread :023:

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