I threw away an entire codebase this week. And I'd do it again.
Last weekend, I deleted v1 of ProductOne. A full codebase. Thousands of generated lines. Zero regret. A year ago that sentence would have been insane. Today it'
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John Kattenhorn
Building software and a business, AI-first. Founder of Komputa. CIO at Kwalee. Documenting the journey publicly.
Always. Building. Something. — Why I'm Doing This in Public
I've been building things since I was a kid with a home computer. The specific things have changed — 6502 assembly, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms
Turbocharging BASIC: The Hybrid Assembly Technique That Defined 1980s Programming
How bedroom coders squeezed impossible performance from 8-bit home computers — and how I revisited it on an Oric Atmos The Problem Every 1980s Programmer Knew If you owned