Sparking Joy in Code

Avoid hasty abstractions

“Hell does not understand my own code.”

- Kyle Simpson

Code is read more than it is written. If your code isn’t a joy to read, it will be difficult to use and dreadful to refactor. Avoid hasty abstractions as much as possible.

We constantly need reminders to avoid code complexity:

• From Fred Brooks warning us about accidental complexity to Rich Hickey exhorting us to decomplect
• From Bob Martin teaching us to write Clean Code to Kent Beck teaching us to write sensible tests for them
• From Sophie Alpert (former manager of React) encouraging us to facilitate local reasoning to Dan Abramov showing us to design

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