UGLY CODE AND DUMB THINGS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

There's a tension between writing elegant, reusable code and building quick, pragmatic solutions for users. Flamework, a pseudo-framework from Flickr, is an example of prioritizing speed and scale over code beauty, where "doing the dumbest possible thing that will work" can be great for product iteration. Reusability is more necessary for libraries and frameworks than applications.