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Max Kanat-Alexander
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Does code quality even matter anymore?
Everything you want to accomplish with a piece of software depends on only two things:
UnderstandingExecuting on that understandingWhen I say everything you want to accomplish, I mean everything. Whether that’s aligning a model, improving system performance, getting more users, implementing some refactoring, everything.
This is fundamentally why we have observability platforms, debuggers, style guid
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Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
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2012
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13 editions
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Understanding Software: Max Kanat-Alexander on simplicity, coding, and how to suck less as a programmer
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“Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.”
― Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
― Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
“You must not design by committee. The result will be an actively bad design — one which makes things more complex instead of simpler.”
― Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
― Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software