Tidy First? started life as a book

I quickly realized that book writing had moved on since I last wrote a book 13 years ago. Now I’m trying to tackle a book-scoped topic as a SubStack.

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Software design is an exercise in human relationships. We start with our relationship with ourselves. We have to change some janky code. Do we tidy first? If so, how? Why?

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Kent Beck 

Programmer, coach coach, singer/guitarist, peripatetic. Learning to be me. Works at @GustoHQ.