Not many in my teams could put a finger on what exactly I did, but all agreed I was fairly valuable and things became worse when I left.

See: Being Glue

This is just a meme, but I find that communication is an underrated skill among software engineers.

Personally, I’m trying to get better at it.

FYI

1. branch protection is a thing
2. commit signing is a thing

I’m not sure what you are getting at.

Then saying that you have looked through and reviewed the code would be lying. And that is unprofessional.

Any context?

Since we are on the topic of funny stuff in code, here’s one encounter I had earlier:

default variables to null or something

That is such a bad idea. Better to have the compiler warn you about it like in Rust, or have the linter / IDE highlight it.

Yeah, TIL too.

I just searched for an image of “pouring water on computer”.

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury