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Discussion on: Longtime devs: Have you rekindled your love of coding after losing the spark at any point in your career?

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Jason C. McDonald

I can't remember where I picked it up, but it's a term for that phenomenon when you've been working on the same code for so long, you can no longer see the obvious.

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Michiel Hendriks

That's a really good term for it. I'm going to remember it.

It goes well with this quote

"One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile." - Oscar Godson

Walk away to prevent/cure codeblindness.