In this special Thanksgiving weekend episode, Fito and Alan discuss what they're thankful for this year, and then tackle why DRY is the worst programming advice ever.

Links...

• A Brewer's Guide to Filtering out Complexity and Churn from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024.
• The Case for WET Tests by Amanda Beiner
• Let's Not by Joe Ferris
• 3A – Arrange, Act, Assert by Bill Wake
• Rule of Three from Refactoring by Martin Fowler (page 58), attributed to Don Roberts
• "Last Responsible Moment" from Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres (page 25), though Beck & Andres may have been influenced by Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck (page 57), which was released a year earlier.

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