QNTM – Developer Philosophy

https://qntm.org/devphilo

• Avoid, at all costs, arriving at a scenario where the ground-up rewrite starts to look attractive
• Aim to be 90% done in 50% of the available time
• Automate good practice
• Think about pathological data
• There is usually a simpler way to write it
• Write code to be testable
• It is insufficient for code to be provably correct; it should be obviously, visibly, trivially correct