the ability to change email address is not that complicated of a feature to postpone to later.

maybe they should ask CC to fix this...

It’s not a complicated feature and it’s also not required on day 1. At Cronitor we did not have it for nearly 2 years.

I don't know. I actually find it harder and more stressful to write code in a way that does not meet a certain quality level. it require me to actually think more.

It's king of weird, but I have tried over the years to develop a do-just-what-is-necessary-now mindset in my software engineering work, and I just can't make my mind work that.

For me, doing things right is a way for me to avoid having to hold too much context in my head while working on my projects. I know the idiomatic way to do something, and if i just do it that way, then when I come back to it I know it should and is architectured.

“I don’t have this feature yet” is not really a mental burden. For any successful project that is always true about a lot of features.