> Find the dependencies — and eliminate them One of the smartest things you can do in software development. In my experience, 99% of problems are caused by dep

> Find the dependencies — and eliminate them One of the smartest things you can do in software development. In my experience, 99% of problems are caused by dependencies. Code that I wrote 20 years ago still works today. With no drama, no upgrade issues, no political BS, no waiting forever to get a simple bug fixed etc. The more dependencies I remove, the more reliable and maintainable my software is. For example: I am currently the maintainer of very large scale mission critical software written in C++ used by enterprises around the world. And I have reduced dependencies to almost zero. The result is zero bugs in production the last 5+ years. And zero maintenance pain. The result is that I spend close to 100% of my time adding features, improving performance etc. and close to 0% of my time dealing with dependency bugs/issues/open source politics/BS etc. It’s a great place to be!