Yet another example of "code the stupidest thing first"

 I've read a post called "Code the shortest path first", and I couldn't agree more, really. The core idea is a well known one to the reader of this blog (me, mostly). It's not even about YAGNI, or "The Wrong Abstraction". It's about having that "tracer bullet" or "steel thread" that guides you through the implementation phases. Also, if the feature looks too big from the beginning, you can try "SPIDR".

Also, what I find is that my first code, it's usually highly compressed, and that also gives a first soul to the implementation that lives on during the implementation.