A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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24 years later still a banger https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

also note how within a quarter of a century we went from quality writing like this one to ThePrimagen twitch streams designed for folks who clearly have adhd and/or 4 video tabs open. hashtag decline.

That article makes me laugh every time I read it, because he argued Netscape made the worst mistake of all time by rewriting from scratch.

That rewrite is what became Mozilla, which was fundamental in destroying IE's monopoly on web browsers.

It's generally good advice, but the callout is historically incredible irony as the shining example of when a full rewrite goes right.