A very thoughtful, high-minded paper on doing software development more gooder

Post #443,382 by malraux 9/5/23 3:12:13 PM 9/5/23 3:12:13 PM Reply	A very thoughtful, high-minded paper on doing software development more gooder https://grugbrain.dev/ This whole paper resonates with me. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #443,383 by boxley 9/5/23 5:06:57 PM 9/5/23 5:06:57 PM Reply	a lot of KISS in there, good article "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #443,385 by Another Scott 9/6/23 11:27:02 AM 9/6/23 11:27:02 AM Reply	Excellent. Passed on. Thanks.
Post #443,388 by scoenye 9/6/23 8:41:08 PM 9/6/23 8:41:08 PM Reply	Maintainability is everything I have been going with that mindset for a while now. The paper does indeed resonate. Unfortunately, it does not resonate with everyone so eternal vigilance is needed :-(
Post #443,391 by static 9/7/23 5:44:33 AM 9/7/23 5:44:33 AM Reply	Will second that. I have two colleagues who tend to let complexity win over readability. My challenge, being the most code monkey in the team, is to catch it earlier rather than later. I'm not as successful as I want to be. I was tracing through some code to analyze whether it was making a faulty call and came across a few functions that seemed to be doing weird things and I could not see why. sigh Clearly they haven't learnt how to leave notes when they do something like that... Wade.
Post #443,392 by CRConrad 9/7/23 7:46:19 AM 9/7/23 7:46:19 AM Reply	Seen that referenced quite a lot (mainly on HN?); can't recall if I'd actually read it before. This one line, under DRY: note well! grug encourage over literal developer not take does work line too serious, is joke I actually think it works for real, too, not just as a joke: Over time (as you get better?), the code actually doing what it's supposed to do becomes less uncertain, so relatively less of a concern -- "less important". (Also, gotta report a typo... So this is the htmx guy, Carson Gross, right?) -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi

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