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Digital pollution

Derek Sivers · 15 Oct 2019 · sive.rs ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Code and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone.

    Their wordsI prefer coding everything by hand, because I don't like the huge piles of garbage that the automated generators create.

  2. Our reading

    Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.

    Their wordsThese programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.