A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about the impeding launch of Discourse. She asked me if I was worried that people would judge me for the code I'd written (although to be honest, you can't tell who wrote what since we reset our commit history when we launched).

The truth is releasing your code is a very scary thing to do. I knew some parts were good, some parts less so.

Posts like this (and their pull requests) have floored me. Grant did a fantastic job refactoring a large chunk of technical debt we'd acquired, and then took the time to write up why he did it in detail.

I really hope this trend of improving something and writing how you did it catches on. I want to see it in other people's code bases too!