Treating code-reading as a deliberate skill

Most developers admit they're terrible at reading code. We spend countless hours wrestling with spaghetti code, deciphering cryptic commits, and generally feeling lost in a sea of syntax. But what if I told you code reading isn't a passive chore, but a deliberate, learnable skill? It's time we treated it with the respect it deserves. Think about it: how much of our daily grind involves understanding what someone else (or our past selves) wrote? Debugging, onboarding, contributing to open sourc...