Dan Abramov The wet codebase

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halfcat · 2024-05 · Strong recommendation

The visualizations in Dan Abramov’s talk “The wet codebase” [1] really burned this concept in for me. Seeing what a premature, wrong abstraction looks like visually was eye opening. [1] [VIDEO]

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halfcat · 2024-08 · Recommendation

Dan Abramov talks about WET (write everything twice) [1] as generally a good approach, primarily because you often don’t know the right abstraction up front, and a wrong abstraction is way worse than a copy/paste. He has some good visuals that illustrate how incorrectly dependent and impossible to unwind wrong abstractions can become. [1] [VIDEO]

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shadowfoxx · 2023-08 · Recommendation

In my career as a software dev I've found one thing to be true - Every Paradigm I ingest that opens new windows of opportunity are great at first pass and as I learn more the more narrow the scope they can be applied. (This is kinda true in life, too. Like when people say, "Its econ 101 or bio 101." etc. What seems like a statement about 'common' knowledge is actually an indication of how shallow your knowledge is!) Specifically related to this topic is a talk by Dan Abramov called, "The Wet Codebase" - He says it better than I can sum up and has visual aids : [VIDEO] Other have pointed out code that is similar in function vs similar by coincidence and I think that thought alone is worth chewing on.

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