Post #3293624
2026-06-11 09:39 UTC
@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot lovely.
Re: the coda - it really does seem like heavily optimisations die with the next developer (or it's been my experience of the last 3 things I've done something like this).
Most people seem completely unattuned to this stuff.
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@greg@icosahedron.website 2026-06-19 22:45
@64kb@icosahedron.website @moh_kohn@mastodon.scot obviously the new hires / maintainers should be thinking of Chesterton's Fence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence - HOWEVER I think that if you can also include test benchmarks, documentation or tools to make it easy to demonstrate that the fence is still valuable, then the new maintainer can prove it to themselves. Else it might sound like preaching! It's good to re-evaluate every so often and make sure what you're doing is still worth doing. Make it simple to do so.