CUPID For Joyful Coding
summary
Proposes a concrete five-letter rubric—CUPID = Composable, Unix philosophy, Predictable, Idiomatic, Domain-based—as a practical lens to assess and improve real codebases, not abstract principles. Describes using it to run codebase assessments, a team-oriented code critique process, and to guide refactoring and deployable boundaries; publishes a tiny static reference at cupid.dev and reports viral attention (front page Hacker News #24) showing teams adopt it successfully.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00CUPID and joyful coding
- 10:09Understandable to joyful code
- 13:00Properties versus principles
- 14:41CUPID properties
- 15:44Composable code and Unix
- 21:19Predictable runtime
- 27:21Idiomatic code
- 32:41Domain-based structure
- 37:21Applying CUPID
- 41:14CUPID’s journey
- 42:59Q&A on CUPID
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