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May 22, 2022 at 01:20
On writing code to communicate an idea or intent:
Codebases as communication
Codebases as communication
Conventionally we communicate programming ideas with talks, papers, and blog posts. But we can also communicate ideas with entire codebases. If someone finds...

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