I can see why Twitter challenges and even betters blogs, as I see far more interesting and new stuff than I normally would with just an RSS reader as people I barely know retweet links from people I’d never know. This short article flew by this morning: “To write good code, you sometimes have to write bad code”.

I don’t even need to quote anything there, and if I had to make a change, I would remove, “sometimes.” This applies not only to code, and performance, and security, but to life in general. Taking some risks and being wrong is one of those weaknesses I struggle with regularly. Just have to keep saying: doing and being wrong is better than not doing at all. And that’s true pretty much every time I make a plunge. Sure I might get my hand slapped and I might even get egg on my face or skin a knee, but (and I have this up on my board at work): “A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.”

There are so many little idioms I’ve stuck to me like velcro balls in a Double Dare physical challenge, like how we learn the most when shit hits the fan, growth through adversity, and so on.

For the article, I don’t think you *can* write good (and secure) code without first writing and learning from bad code. The problem is so many people in [web/mobile] development jobs only have homegrown knowledge and end up learning on the fly with production-level apps. We’re still in a relative infancy with computer programming (or higher level languages which change every 5-8 years like tech fads).