Reflections on software performance
In software, my rule is: always have working code.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Code wins arguments. If we tested a feature and didn’t like it, we rebuilt it until we landed on the best version. For some surfaces, like the activity feed, we rewrote it three times before we finally landed on an implementation that felt good enough.
Jesse Chen • Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
More importantly, I learned that writing a web application is all about making tradeoffs