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Nov 4, 2016 at 14:06
IME @codinghorror's advice on building applies to Emacs projects too. If you're not using it, it will never be great
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Complaint-Driven Development
Complaint-Driven Development
If I haven’t blogged much in the last year, it’s because we’ve been busy building that civilized discourse construction kit thing I talked about. (Yes, that’s actually the name of the company. This is what happens when you put me in charge of naming things. Pinball

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