Chesteron’s Fence: Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

this is a great analogy for coding, many such cases on codebases where code seems to do nothing but might be there for a reason

creator of le /bleu @elefant. 
co-creator of /farcards

destroyer of things.

yep also bc it's much easier to rewrite your slop you only understand, than to try and understand what was build before you and why 😂💀

The first thing a new hire does often is wants to do is rewrite a whole thing. It’s because they don’t know what the fence supports yet