What David Crawshaw thinks about simplicity

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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6 Feb 2024

Our readingProgramming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.

Their wordsProgramming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.

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