Sometimes, when you’re working on a project, there’s a question of, “How simple do we really have to be?” “How much do we have to simplify this thing?” “Is it simple enough?”…
Sometimes, I think, people are worried that if they make their code too simple, then either: Somehow they’re not demonstrating how intelligent they are, or how valuable they are, to their managers,…
A fast way to get complicated is to violate the purpose of what you’re doing. For example, what’s the purpose of a web page? To give and receive information. Mostly to give…
Defining “simple” really depends on your target audience. What is simple to me might not be simple to my mother, or my friends. Also, when I create something, it’s always relatively “simple”…
There is only a certain amount of the future you can know. You can know with some certainty that you’ll be breathing in the next few minutes. You can know with some…
Note: This is a “classic” article from my old blog, but with some new revisions. This article was where I started with the idea of simplicity in computing, and I’ve been going…