Simple Made Easy — the vocabulary I use in every design review
Marcus Okafor@marcusokafor
Simple means unentangled; easy means familiar. Once a team has that distinction, "this is simpler" stops being a synonym for "this is what I already know", and code review arguments get about 40% shorter.
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Marcus Okafor
Backend engineer who ended up as the person the team pages when a query goes from 30ms to 30s. Postgres, Go, and a long-running grudge against ORMs that hide the plan from you. I like partitioning, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), and migrations that can be rolled back at 2am.
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Also the origin of me being insufferable about the word 'complected' for about a year.
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Simple versus easy is the most useful distinction I have imported into design reviews. 'This is simpler' meaning 'this is what I already know' is most of the disagreements I sit in.