The Goldfish Chronicles

My secrets to developing:

* Be tidy and clean, aka care about your code.
* Learn to extract history from your source-code repository.
* Never settle for a result unless you understand how you got there, and its corollary:
* Code from scratch, don’t adapt examples.
* Experiment with tools, but once you’ve experimented, focus on particular ones for particular jobs.
* When you have a language query, experiment yourself. Don’t let search engines replace your brain.
* Become a zone junkie. There are times when coding is bliss, hunt for those times.
* Watch the leading/bleeding edge, but don’t go there unless you feel it is right.
* Always try to keep things to a minimum.
* Be brave. Don’t be afraid to delete, remove, stop.

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