This article has some really great advice, especially in the agentic era where code can be rewritten quickly if needed. dannorth.net/blog/best-si... The author articulates things I feel intuitively about building software, particularly the idea of “as simple as possible, but no simpler”.
Best Simple System for Now
You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software...
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![A screenshot of a Shinylive app using Polars code:
from shiny import App, render, ui
import polars as pl
from pathlib import Path
app_ui = ui.page_fluid(
ui.input_select("cyl", "Select Cylinders", choices=["4", "6", "8"]),
ui.output_data_frame("filtered_data")
)
def server(input, output, session):
df = pl.read_csv(Path(__file__).parent / "mtcars.csv")
@output
@render.data_frame
def filtered_data():
return (df
.filter(pl.col("cyl") == int(input.cyl()))
.select(["mpg", "cyl", "hp"]))
app = App(app_ui, server)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hnkswprmt42fkt2huzbkcpcx/bafkreifcr4vfugeei25pfex52gvvvxnukyy4sms4ytpk6isepn5c3j473i)
