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About removing code

Valerian Valerian
February 13, 2023
2 min read

In a tech world that’s hellbent on making everything more complicated than it needs to be, I’ve built my philosophy around slashing that nonsense. It’s about chopping out the “accidental complexity” everyone else seems intent on piling on.

When you break things down to their essence, the code does more by doing less. What you’re left with is lean, clear, and concise: no fluff, just results. This is about building software you can breathe with. It’s freeing up your bandwidth from endless debugging, maintenance, and painful integrations.

Let’s talk real results. I once took a bloated, sprawling process that would’ve drained a half-time employee for two weeks straight and cut it down to a single button press. That one click did in an hour what the old process took two weeks to slog through. We’re not talking tiny edits, either: I slashed the codebase from a monstrous 60,000 lines to a crisp 5,000.

In a world drowning in needless complexity, simplifying is a business edge. It’s about stripping down to what’s essential and ditching the junk everyone else wants to stack on.

Let’s take your code and make it simple, powerful, and to the point one line at a time.