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by gosukiwi 1028 days ago
I like Dan Abramov's "The Wet Codebase" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KCHwOwgms) -- I've been guilty of doing just what he says in his talk at first, removing all duplications and making the codebase DRY. But then I came to like "prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction", as Sandi Metz puts it.

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