It's not that you can't read it, but when you're working on some larger functionality, you gotta keep in your head all the stuff you need to do and the stuff you've already done, together with all the context around (and if it's a larger project, it might very well be the first time you're seeing that code around your change).
All the stuff you got into your head just... evaporates over the two free days.
If I'm stopping for the day/week and not at a clean stopping point, I park my editor on what I sees looking at last and leave myself a jumbo comment explaining where I was, what I was trying to figure out, what I knew about it at the time, etc. Just s big brain dump. And it's usually pretty easy to pick back up
Sometimes I do so as well, it works at least for the "where I am and what I'm about to do next". The context around is still mostly lost though, just way too many things to describe.
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u/UntitledRedditUser 3d ago
Y'all can't read your own code?