SOLID and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don&rsquo;t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read are: Designing Data-Intensive Applications: really good book. The Mythical Man-Month: felt outdated but useful to understand where the industry came from Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable…