one of the more useful things I realized at some point for how to be a good code reviewer is "that's not how I'd do it" is not constructive feedback and is not a valid reason to request a change, and if you can't think of an actual good reason to block a review, you can save a lot of time for everybody involved by just chilling out about it
life hack: live longer by dying on fewer hills
side thought: I don't get people who are adverse to reading code written by other people. how on earth did you people learn to program?
@aeva I put my hands in the METABLEND made from all computers ever ground up, powered by the eternal spark of the infinity catalyst
how the fuck did YOU learn to program?
@efi from a library book full of BASIC games that I had to carefully copy into the BASIC interpreter by hand like a monk copying manuscripts by candle light
@aeva messed up ngl
@efi I also learned a lot about HTML, CSS, and JAVASCRIPT as a kid by pressing that "view source" button and having a little lookaroo whenever I came across a web site that was doing something interesting
@aeva actually, I learned a lot from messing around with the tomb raider 4 level editor, including a meaning of the word script
I didn't even read english well back then, and had no internet access
@efi that's awesome
@aeva @efi The Warcraft 3 level editor was my very first programming experience.