New Chapter: Start Stupid

content/books/things-i-learnt/_index.md

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 		* [Resist The Temptation Of Easy](resist-easy)
 		* [Always Use Timezones With Your Dates](use-timezones)
 		* [Always Use UTF-8 For Your Strings](use-utf8)
+		* [Start Stupid](start-stupid)
 * Community/Teams
 	* [A Language Is Much More Than A Language](languages-are-more)
 	* [Understand And Stay Away From Cargo Cult](cargo-cult)

content/books/things-i-learnt/languages-are-more/index.md

@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ surface of what the whole of a language encapsulates and if you ignore the
 other elements in it, you may find yourself with a cute language in a
 community that is always fighting and never going forward.
 
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content/books/things-i-learnt/start-stupid/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Start Stupid"
+date = 2019-07-01
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "kiss"]
++++
+
+One way to get away from the IDE is to "start stupid": Just get the compiler
+and get an editor (ANY editor) with code highlight and do your thing: Code,
+build it, run it.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+Notice that say "stupid way", not "simple way".
+
+Doing things in the stupid way is not the easiest way to start a project. How
+could one beat the easy of clicking a button and having the whole structure of
+a project done for you?
+
+But starting it in the stupid way, in which you have to think your project
+layout, how to build stuff, how to run tests, how to do _everything_ may give
+you some insights on how things work, how the pieces mesh together and how to
+cogs turn around.
+
+Honestly, you don't have to do this with all projects. You can still use your
+favourite IDE and do things in the easy way. But you can also have that side
+project on which you'll do everything in the stupid way, just to understand
+what your IDE is doing.
+
+And when you grasp that, you'll be able to use _any_ IDE.
+
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content/books/things-i-learnt/use-utf8/index.md

@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ single character. Walking through the whole string would require traversing
 the string character by character, instead of simply jumping straight to the
 proper position. But that's a price worth paying, in the long run.
 
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