Completed a project in summer for a client based on Laravel and kept working on other projects based on same framework. Today went back to add some functionality ended up feeling miserable looking at my own code. Don't know how to feel about this.

Feel good.

That means that you have grown and become a better developer.

Dread the day when you marvel at your own old code ;)

What I dread the most, is my tendency to just go for hacks, when my patience is running low..
leave notes and write a todo..

Then forget all about it until I notice,
n time later..

But yeah, cringing over past code isn't necessarily a bad thing. :)

You did your best at the time so be proud!
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