# timoxley/best-practices

Tidbits of developer best practices from around the web

Repository: https://github.com/timoxley/best-practices
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/timoxley-best-practices
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-01-04T14:18:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5367, "days_push": 1337, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1278, forks 276 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.440305+00:00)

## What it is
A curated collection of quotes and paraphrased programming best practices gathered from blogs, talks, and discussions around the web. It is a reading resource rather than software, covering topics like avoiding large apps, writing less code, and keeping dependencies lean.

## Use cases
- find advice on software design best practices
- read curated programming wisdom from well-known developers
- learn principles for keeping codebases small and maintainable
- get quotes to cite in engineering guidelines or talks
- decide whether to rewrite or refactor existing code
- onboard junior developers to software craftsmanship ideas

## When to choose
- you want a quick, opinionated reading list of programming principles
- you are compiling engineering culture or onboarding material
- you want sourced quotes from practitioners like Joel Spolsky and Avdi Grimm

## When to avoid
- you need executable tooling, libraries, or code
- you need comprehensive, up-to-date best-practice handbooks
- you require a maintained project with a license and active releases

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, awesome-lists
- platform: -
- tags: best-practices, curated-list, programming-wisdom, quotes

## Member repositories
- timoxley/best-practices (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.440305+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:47.788900+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/timoxley/best-practices (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.440305+00:00, sha e6148999ebbe)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.