On: Finish your stuff

[jblok]

"Lately, after 30 years in the programming business, I've finally managed to cut down my projects to a reasonable size."

After 30 years of programming, you'd better be a pretty decent programmer. And maybe that's why their projects take less time to complete.

[vidarh → jblok]

If you look at his progression, a lot of it is also about shaving down the size and complexity. E.g. the AMQP -> 0mq -> nanomsg chain which is a journey of cutting complexity.