| Essay 10 | Be Imperfect |
Every passionate programmer cares, first and foremost, about her code. Code is our canvas. Although no user will ever look at our code, the passionate programmer labors over every line. Even when we know, full well, we’re building a small app for a small audience, a lot of us still care that our applications will perform under the biggest of stages. We care about how our code might perform under the most severe of conditions. We make attempts to reduce excess calls to the server, to the service, and to the database.
And yet, to survive in this industry, we better not be perfectionists. There is no such thing as a perfect piece of software, especially web-based software. Our products live through our users. They morph ...
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