Coding Philosophy

Code built by feeling is honest. Code cleaned by structure is useful. The art is knowing when to do which.

The Two Modes

Feeling-First (Creative Mode)

When you're discovering what to build. Priority: speed, expression, exploration.

• Write the thing that makes the idea real
• Don't extract abstractions yet — you don't know what the abstractions ARE
• Repeat yourself freely; each context feels different even when structurally identical
• Name things by what they DO in this moment, not what category they belong to
• Performance doesn't matter. Clarity at point-of-writing does.
• Dead code is fine — it's the archaeology of ideas you tried

When to use: Prototyping, game jams, exploring an idea, building the first version of anything, creative projects where discovery IS the process.