[samus]

> throwaway major refactors

Thank you for providing me a term for this! I indeed learned a lot from doing this because some things can only be understood by hitting them with a hammer, putting them together again and observing where that doesn't work.

[convolvatron]

absolutely. the best is when you spend all this time trying to figure out what this awful and convoluted thing is. and you finally just take it out to see what happens, and the answer is .. nothing

its software. we should take full of advantage of its plasticity.