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@tomdale thanks for informing me that there has been a change in constraints. I will reevaluate "tweetstorms are good" immediately :) -
@wycats That wasn't a tweetstorm, bro, that was a tweet-category-5-hurricane. -
@tomdale I was joking but it seems like medium is good. I kind of wish for a first class storyify thing. Medium posts are harder to write -
@tomdale long tweetstorms can still be short on details; blog posts really want a higher degree of polish. Hard :( -
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@wycats Uh, please don't tweet like this. Make a link to a blog. You are interleaved by other tweets and difficult to read. -
@FremyCompany click on the first one and read it through. It's threaded by replies ;) -
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What are some lightweight ways we can document these kinds of shortcuts and their underlying assumptions?
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Part of the problem with outdated "shortcuts" is that they're rarely re-examined because they're not made explicit.
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A habit of regularly making explicit our assumptions—particularly about the ordering of constraints—should help us reexamine them later.
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For example, now would be a good time to reexamine shortcuts relying on the assumption that storage is expensive relative to other resources
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had a searchable list of all the things we "know" that rely on that axiom?
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One idea that appeals to me is using source control systems as a means of keeping _some_ of this documentation. e.g.https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/719317420003979264 …
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I've outlined some of the benefits of that approach here:https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/04/24/source-control-documentation/ …
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