5 min
I learned PHP by accident
I did not decide to learn a back-end language this year. I got cornered into it one template at a time, and I've been thinking about how much of what I know arrived that way rather than on purpose.
PHP
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7 min
200-line functions
I inherited a codebase where the function at the center of everything is 211 lines long, and my first reaction was contempt, and my first reaction is always contempt and has never once been useful.
6 min
Three themes deep
I spent most of a Tuesday looking for the file that renders a product's price. I found four. The one actually running was the one I'd have guessed last.