This article is good, but these conversations here on HN always bug me. Yes—write a ton of code.[0] Just do it. Make your favourite couple languages extensions

This article is good, but these conversations here on HN always bug me. Yes—write a ton of code.[0] Just do it. Make your favourite couple languages extensions of yourself. Yes—think through your code really clearly. Spend a day on your migration or other data-structure altering changes. They're going to echo throughout your whole application and, ultimately, organization. [0] The closer you get to the API, the faster you should code. Not the interface definition itself, that should be thought through, but the code that responds to a call to the interface. The serializer, the part of the controller that calls the render, these parts are easy. Just roll them out. The models and migrations are much more important. Spend time there. It's not an all or nothing thing.