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Aug 25, 20261 min read

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  • 2024-12-18-one-of-the-most-powerful-lessons-i-learned-as-a
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  • Aug 07, 2026

    A good way to evaluate one axis of quality of an abstraction is to inline every function call, and see how much duplicate work you can either deduplicate or turn into a loop (rather than several independent function calls).

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  • Jun 02, 2026

    The first way people usually learn code compression is by pulling common things out into helper functions, but in my view the complexity of adding a new entry point is often overlooked, and things quickly turn into a mess.

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  • Apr 30, 2025

    To the degree this is true, it’s only in a technical sense.

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  • Dec 18, 2024

    One of the most powerful lessons I learned as a programmer was to use combinatoric spaces to my advantage, rather than allowing them to explode into—for example—handwritten source code.

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