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Simple writing also lasts better. People reading your stuff in the future will be in much the same position as people from other countries reading it today. The culture and the language will have changed. It's not vain to care about that, any more than it's vain for a woodworker to build a chair to last.
Paul Graham • Write Simply
storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
Marie Kondo • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever
If you manage to avoid the trap of building custom software, the next boss to beat is avoiding the trap of customizing off-the-shelf software. The question to ask over and over again: how can you eliminate ""requirements"" in order to use software ever-more idiomatically? https://t.co/plvrDMRMG5
<current_code>
paste_code_here
</current_code>
<goals>
your_goals_here
</goals>
<constraints>
your_constraints_here
</constraints>
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Matt Shumerx.coma good rule of thumb is to optimize for usability and solve the abuse problems when they become real. I’ve rarely seen this approach fail, and I have seen products stumble by trying to solve abuse problems that might never occur.
Chris Vander Mey • Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon
Vibe coding tip:
After successfully completing your goal, ask:
“Please clean up the code you worked on, remove any bloat you added, and document it very clearly.”
Matt Shumerx.comI like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.