Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.– Martin Fowler
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
— Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom) June 23, 2020
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
As user experience became more seamless, we began to miss the internet’s seams
If the contemporary internet is a city, Wikipedia is the lone public park; all the rest of our public spaces are shopping malls—open to the general public, but subject to the rules and logic of commerce.
A public service Web invites us to imagine services that don’t exist now, because they are not commercially viable, but perhaps should exist for our benefit, for the benefit of citizens in a democracy.
Source: Building a More Honest Internet – Columbia Journalism Review