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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools => Competence trumps process Working software over comprehensive documentation => Minimize time from program launch to deployment of simplest useful functionality I really like the DoD's phrasings of classic agile maxims:

I've been playing with 'sliders' in difftastic, the classic diff problem where you highlight an adjacent value that is correct but weird. I've taught difftastic to penalise sequences across newlines. This largely works, but it hurts perf (another degree of freedom to solve).

Myroslava is doing some exciting work on code completion in Pharo: https://medium.com/@myroslavarm/my-internship-at-inria-one-month-in-e43971d95fba However, this paragraph particularly jumped out at me. This is classic Smalltalk: building a little helper GUI specific to your task!