mighty.md

Mighty Principles of Development

1. Modularity: "Do one thing and do it well." Feature creep is the death of software.
2. Simplicity: Complexity is the mother of all evil. Cleverness is not wisdom, it's a shortsighted indulgence.
3. Clarity: Writing code is easy, reading code is hard. Easily grokked code is beautiful.
4. Testability: Untested code is broken code. Never assume otherwise.
5. Brevity: Write what is necessary to pass a test and nothing more. New requirements should be introduced to a code base through new tests.
6. Futility: Don't optimize what you haven't measured. The bottleneck is usually somewhere else.
7. Stupidity: From UIs to APIs, everything built is by definition designed. Design requires thought, so think before you type.
8. Extensibility: Keep your code flexible, but do not cater to use cases that do not exist yet. They may never happen.
9. Gullibility: Ship quickly and scrutinize your assumptions. Listen to, but do not blindly trust your instincts, they are often wrong.
10. Honesty: You don't know everything. When you don't understand something, acknowledge it... then figure out how it works.