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LAB NOTE · SAHPrincipleIn force
Keep Your Anus Small
The lab's governing principle against unnecessary complexity.
SAH is the principle every Sphincter Labs project is measured against: Keep Your Anus Small.
It is a rule about scope. A tool should do its job with the smallest opening that does the job well. Every additional feature, dependency, setting and abstraction widens the aperture, and things get in that should not.
In practice
- Native apps instead of web wrappers.
- Offline by default; the network is invited in, not assumed.
- Corrective passes make the minimum viable change, not a rewrite.
- If a feature cannot be built honestly, it is not drawn on the interface either.
The principle is also why this archive is short.