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Rytis

Another one that I keep telling my students and junior developers: Never copy-paste code, ever! Always type it out manually. Especially if it's from Stack Overflow or another project. This might seem slow and counterintuitive, but it in the long run it will save you debug time and allow to understand the code better.

It also allows you to immediately tailor code to your specific use case on the fly.