As I continue this process of digging up my own code and working with it, I am discovering some surprising things. For one thing, I don’t always agree with myself.<\/p>\n
Back then I had a tendency to build things up a lot. Given a choice, I would generally go for the fancier and more comprehensive solution.<\/p>\n
These days I am much more into minimalism. I am now willing to sacrifice one or two fancy features in order to make things simple for the user.<\/p>\n
It’s as though I’ve become more Zen as a programmer. As Thoreau said, simplify.<\/p>\n
This is leading to a somewhat odd situation: As I “collaborate” with my younger self, I find us disagreeing quite a lot.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, it is a polite disagreement. The two of us are unlikely to resort to fisticuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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