#better programming

Things I Learned From a Senior Software Engineer

I sat next to a senior software engineer for a year. Here’s what I learned

A year ago, I started working full-time at Bloomberg. That’s when I imagined writing this post. I imagined myself to be full of ideas that I could spit out on paper when the time came.

Just one month in, I realized it won’t be that easy; I was already forgetting things I learned. They either became so internalized that…

When ever you expect data from others - to be passed on to you or you are reading from a config file which others may change, please check if the data is present and validate the format.