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by marklubi 56 days ago
Documenting why is incredibly important, but also why something has not been done.

The last business I started, I was coding at full steam building features that I could make work now although not optimal, so I would add comments reflecting that.

Over the > 15 years the product’s been on the market, there have been several times I’ve come back across those comments when we outgrew the quick solution several years later.