Thoughts on Coding

Aug 12

By andrew

From a recent IM conversation with a good friend of mine:

Andrew Bloom
12:51 i hate working on shitty codebases
12:51 i wish i had time to do a major refactoring
Stephan Mokey
12:52 yeah, code is never done, it’s just due
12:52 we are artists

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