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		chrisweekly on Oct 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facts every web dev should know before they burn o... Yes! "AHA" (Avoid Hasty Abstractions) beats DRY.

allknowingfrog on Oct 21, 2021 [–]

My favorite expression of this idea is "Write Everything Twice", if only because WET has a nice symmetry with DRY.

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