Chesterton's middle finger (opens in new tab)

The analogy says that you need to be careful to change things if you don’t understand why things are the way they are, because there may be good reasons you haven’t considered yet. This is broadly good advice in many different contexts, including programming where it can be easy to “fix” some weird code only to discover there was a reason for the weirdness later on when things break. This is Chesterson’s middle finger: # List all commit body content (but not the subject line) % git log --no-m...