A significant part of my refactoring, is removing code.

I always say that the best code I write, is the code I don’t write. It can take longer to simplify a block of code, than it took to originally write.

I also tend to use “light touch” documentation[0]. I use headerdoc-style function and property intros, with occasional terse inline comments for inscrutable parts. These inline comments always talk about why I’m doing something odd.

And I eat my own dog food. I maintain almost everything I write, so I write code and documentation that I want to see, six months down the road.

And testing. I do a lot of that; especially monkey testing[1].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/various/testing-harness-vs-unit...