Code as a Tool of Process

Steve Krouse wrote a piece that has me nodding along: Programming, like writing, is an activity, where one iteratively sharpens what they're doing as they do it. (You wouldn't believe how many drafts I've written of this essay.) There’s an incredible amount of learning and improvement, i.e. sharpening, to be had through the process of iteratively building something. As you bring each aspect of a feature into reality, it consistently confronts you with questions like, “But how will this here...