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The philosophy of a tool like htmx encourages the opposite of "avoiding learning new things". The reality is that there is not often anything that is truly novel. We waste time by failing to recognize patterns and abstractions that persist over long periods of time and in many cases that are even foundational knowledge.

A foundational fact by definition does not need to be constantly scrutinized as if it were not. Rather it is something that can be relied upon stably until such a time that a change in a core assumption forces us to reevaluate the foundation if and when that scenario occurs.



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