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1 always gets me.

My brain will tune out whatever piece of code I've already read once. So if I initially skim some piece of code, figuring out what it -really- does is HARD.

Every subsequent look at that piece of code will be colored by my initial (mis)understanding of how it works

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Try reading it backwards. It forces your brain to look at the be text differently.

This trick is also useful proofreading documents you've read many times already.

Same here, when I am looking for something and I know the area I will read the method or whatever it is rather quickly and be like "oh okay, this is what it does so the problem is not here".

Then after some time when I look at it again, I notice that actually I missed a step in that method which actually did contain the problem, which I did not see by skimming over the piece of code earlier.

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