Digital clean-up

2023-09-08 • 138 words • ~1 min read ⏲

In Gregor Hohpe's book The Software Architect Elevator there is a chapter with the beautiful headline: If you never kill anything, you will live among zombies - And they will eat your brain. As I hinted last week, dead and undead code isn't very satisfying to work with, so in the spirit of Ken Thompsons bonmot One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code, my efforts culminated this week in a merge requests which implements a feature in negative 780 SLOC.

And as I was in digital clean-up mood, I also pruned my wiki. Consolidating notes and throwing away drafts that didn't lead anywhere left it both over a hundred entries smaller and more useful to me than before. Sometimes less is more.