Twitter at the speed of parenting
As true for codebases as it is for life. If you wait to make ANY progress until you can make ALL the progress...it'll never actually get better.https://twitter.com/themattiejames/status/1084758879840411648 …
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Value improvement over consistency. This is the hardest but most important lesson to learn when you're trying to improve an unlivable codebase.
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Yes! Sometimes things have to get a little worse before they get better. That’s how to escape a local maximum.
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yes. step-wise refinement and iterative improvement ftw. Just understand what you're making better, and have a way to know if it's better, at what expense
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Can you provide an example of this?
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Moving classes to their proper namespace one at the time. Splitting up a big, slow calculation into smaller calculations, until the slowness is in a small calculation. Then optimize the slow one. All in separate PRs, with new features in between.
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