{"id":293,"date":"2011-12-19T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/?p=293"},"modified":"2011-12-19T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T11:21:37","slug":"searching-for-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/2011\/12\/searching-for-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m writing code to add a new feature or change an existing one, I try to listen to the little nagging voices I hear about the details. What I want to do is cover all the necessary parts, consider all the cases I can, and make sure that there are good reasons for the choices I&#8217;ve made. It doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect, but it has to feel complete.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when I finally show it to somebody, they find things I didn&#8217;t cover, and not things I didn&#8217;t think of either, things that floated, half-formed in the back of my mind that were never fully expressed. It&#8217;s not just a matter of going through a checklist, it&#8217;s also about listening and feeling your way through a kind of fog. You see shapes in the distance; it&#8217;s up to you to decide if they are important. You can feel your way around their edges, trying to get a sense of them. This is a skill.<\/p>\n<p>The desire to do better is the first step. What comes after is an understanding of what better is. What would &#8220;better&#8221; look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m writing code to add a new feature or change an existing one, I try to listen to the little nagging voices I hear about the details. What I want to do is cover all the necessary parts, consider all the cases I can, and make sure that there are good reasons for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamewhale.com\/whalespeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}