Day What I Did TotLOC
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Mon Prototype Possibilities 300
Tue Write Building Blocks 900
Wed Construct Major Content 1,700
Thu Add Features 2,200
Fri Refactor, Test, Deploy 300
Customer: Looks great. Thank you!
Boss: Only 300 lines of code in 5 days?
Boss: How can you be more efficient?
Me: I could take Fridays off.
The final column isn't LoC written that day; it's LoC in total. Friday was spent refactoring (what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters made it cool); taking the code that was already working, and making it smaller, lighter, better.
> what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters made it cool
Calling it refactoring dates back to at least the early 90s[1], which I'm pretty sure predates "hipster hackers." If anyone "made it cool" it was probably Martin Fowler[2].
