Spring Cleaning: Tidying up your codebase

As the weather warms up, I get energized to give my codebase a spring cleaning. I’ve worked on projects where the mess was so bad that we were afraid to touch anything and I’ve worked on projects where I aggressively tried to get to code neutral (deleting more lines of code than I added). But the right balance lies somewhere in the middle.Over the years, I’ve found a few tasks that I think provide the biggest bang for the buck. Easy, low risk things you can do in under an hour to make your codebase a little bit more inhabitable. Do one every day for a week, or go all-out one Friday afternoon and see how much you can finish.