What you will see next is a highly subjective, non-exhaustive unordered list of principles that, if you follow, I can guarantee will lead you to become a bad developer…

If your goal, fellow reader, is to become a good developer instead, don’t worry. Remember that via negativa is way more powerful than via positiva. That means that knowing what not to do is safer and easier to figure out than exactly what to do. So pay attention to the following topics and decide which type of developer you want to be.

I (dis)agree with every thing that Rafael lays out. I’ll add a bad one of my own: Optimize immediately! Because if your code doesn’t run at ludicrous speed, does it even matter if it executes correctly?!