We can edit forever. The text can always be improved. Take this short story. I just noticed that the word “perhaps” is used 13 times. That’s really bad. I should change it.

But I’ve already spend an hour editing. After spending about 30 minute writing it. I am not a professional writer. This is a hobby website. When is it enough?

The answer: It never is enough. It can always be better.

For now, I will have to be happy with the stream-of-consciousness writing sort. For this blog anyway. There will be some editing, but I will from now on lock myself in a “timebox”. A post took 30 minutes to write? Allowed editing time: 30 minutes.

This is similar to software development. We can always make the code nicer. More readable. More expressive. So we refactor it. And keep refactoring it. Ad infinitum, I’m afraid.