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by cesarb 2115 days ago
> I was surprised by how many people said they enjoyed reading this blog post series. The appetite for “I squeezed some more blood from this stone” tales is high.

There's something satisfying about seeing code get cleaned up and optimized. I also enjoyed following the LibreOffice commits back when they were in their "heavy cleanup" phase after it became clear OpenOffice was dead (which meant they didn't have to worry about diverging from the upstream anymore).

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the early neovim posts were very absorbing too