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markdown You know that feeling when you open a file and immediately want to close it? When adding one tiny feature means touching 15 different files? When your...

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The Analogy Around 20 years ago, a customer who later founded a startup now part of a Fortune 500 company asked me during a casual chat: > “Would you buy a 15‑...

Overview The Overton Framework Protective Computing is now archived on Zenodo with a minted DOI, providing a stable, versioned citation for papers, documentati...

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What YAGNI Really Means YAGNI stands for You Aren’t Gonna Need It. The rule is brutally simple: - If you don’t need it now, don’t build it now. - Not “just in...