Steve PurcellFeb 27

This Rich Hickey quote from 2011 is quite relevant in 2026:

"I think we're in this world I like to call guardrail programming. Right. It's really sad. We're like, I can make change cause I have tests. Right? Who does that? Who drives their car around banging against the guardrails, saying whoa, I'm glad I've got these guardrails because I'd never make it to the show on time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4#t=16m08s

"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

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Show threadRePierre
@sanityinc, thank you! I was looking for that quote recently and gave up the search. What a nice coincidence!
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Show threadSteve PurcellFeb 28
@RePierre I came across it in a comment on this issue, and the context really gave it new meaning: https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/8082
Move tests to closed source repo · Issue #8082 · tldraw/tldraw

Move the test suite out of the open source tldraw/tldraw repo and into the closed source repo. Context The tldraw monorepo currently contains ~327 test files across unit, integration, and e2e tests...

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