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I have lost count of the times I have read a function call with five positional arguments and had to count the commas backwards to work out which one is the timeout and which is the retry count. The f

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I'm a working software engineer. Most of what I write comes from the same place: code is easy to generate now and just as easy to make unmaintainable, and the old engineering habits matter more for it, not less. prickles.org is where I collect those habits as short, specific tenets — guard clauses, screaming architecture, verifiable specs, and the rest. If something here is useful, that's where the full set lives.

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