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A programmer reflects on the evolution of their coding practices from 2015 to 2024. They discuss moving away from heavy use of tests and version control, towards more intuitive and context-specific programming strategies. Key insights include the importance of simplicity, avoiding unnecessary abstractions, and the value of periodically rewriting software from scratch to better understand and optimize its function.

How I program in 2024

<p>Author is talking about writing “programming durable things” without tests and version control meanwhile his “Freewheeling Apps.” are super small lua scripts. Whole repo for one of them is 31kb of code.</p>
<p>Of course you can work without git and unit tests in so small projects and it feel faster and better without them.</p>
