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From: Sam Anthony <sam@samanthony.xyz>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:06:13 -0500
Subject: home page: design philosophy

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 <cite>&mdash;excerpt from <a href="https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers/xc8"><span class="mono">pic.h</span></a></cite>
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-<h1>About</h1>
+<h1 id="about">About</h1>
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-<h1>Biography</h1>
+<h1 id="design-philosophy">Design philosophy</h1>
+<table>
+  <tr><td><a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/tpop.webpage/">Simplicity, clarity, generality.</a></td></tr>
+  <tr><td><a href="https://suckless.org/philosophy/">Frugality.</a></td></tr>
+  <tr><td><a href="https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth/page/n53/mode/2up">Consistency, coherence, conceptual integrity.</a></td></tr>
+  <tr><td><a href="https://usgraphics.com/">Timelessness. Ignore design trends.</a></td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Transparency. Don't hide the innards; make them beautiful.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Respect the user, don't infantilize them.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Readability. Code <i>is</i> documentation (but not a substitute for it).</td></tr>
+  <tr><td><a href="https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth/page/n153/mode/2up">Design top-down, build and test bottom-up.</a></td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Reliability. Consummate design and rigorous testing.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Performance and <a href="https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth/page/n109/mode/2up">minimal memory footprint</a>.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Maintainability&mdash;programs outlive people and computers.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Incremental development&mdash;software is <a href="https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~cs50/Reading/NoSilverBullet.pdf">grown</a>, not built.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>Small, adept team. Great software is written by the few, not by the many.</td></tr>
+</table>
+<h1 id="biography">Biography</h1>
 <img src="img/headshot.jpg" alt="Sam Anthony">
-<p>TODO: biography</p>
+<p>
+  Sam Anthony is a computer programmer from Newfoundland, Canada.
+  TODO
+</p>
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