developer practice

The Config File

A configuration file grew over the years to two thousand lines. A developer asked the senior, “Why are all of these settings here?” The senior answered, “Each one was once a question someone could not answer.” “And now?” “Now they are questions no one remembers asking.” Unpacking the Teaching Every line in that file started […]

The New Framework

A developer announced excitedly that they had rewritten the project in the newest framework. The senior developer asked, “What does it do now that it did not do before?” “The same things.” “And what does it not do that it did before?” The developer paused for a long time. What Are We Really Asking? The […]