On Simplicity in Software

The best code I've ever written is code I eventually deleted.

Simplicity is not about writing less — it's about removing everything that doesn't need to be there. Every abstraction costs something. Every dependency is a liability. Every clever trick is a future maintenance burden.

The hard part is that simple solutions are rarely obvious up front. They emerge from understanding the problem deeply enough to see what can be left out.

That's the work worth doing.