From 099a4ec7ba34871464a50f6227f840dbabe682d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Davies Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 22:59:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add daily email for 2024-08-07 People read more code than they write --- source/_daily_emails/2024-08-07.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 source/_daily_emails/2024-08-07.md diff --git a/source/_daily_emails/2024-08-07.md b/source/_daily_emails/2024-08-07.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..df8698ad --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_daily_emails/2024-08-07.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: People read more code than they write +date: 2024-08-07 +permalink: daily/2024/08/07/people-read-more-code-than-they-write +tags: + - software-development + - clean-code +snippet: | + People read more code than they write. +--- + +Which do you do more? + +Read code or write code? + +If you include colleagues' code, logs and CI pipeline output, open-source software, books, courses, tutorials, examples, videos, live streams, meetup and conference talks and blog posts (just to think of some), you definitely read more code than you write. + +Which is why it's important to [optimise for readability][0]. + +[0]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/08/06/computers-dont-care