There's a peculiar joy in crafting something with care—whether it's a piece of furniture, a paragraph, or a program. The satisfaction comes not from the finished product alone, but from the countless small decisions made along the way.
I've been thinking about what makes software endure. Not the code itself, which will inevitably be rewritten, but the ideas behind it.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."