title: Less: A Visual Guide to Minimalism
author:  Rachel Aust 
description: <b>Rachel Aust</b> is a 25-year-old fitness, health, and lifestyle YouTuber who shares her knowledge on a self-titled channel with more than 446,000 subscribers. Her topics range from the highly popular Minimal Series to fitness, lifestyle, beauty, and health. A jack-of-all-trades from Brisbane, Australia, she also works as a photographer, shooting fashion, beauty, food, and advertising campaigns. Her creative Instagram feed has 140,000 followers and focuses on fashion and fitness. She's the cofounder of the fitness blog Eat Run Lift and has written five ebooks: <i>My HIIT Guide</i>, <i>8 Week Transformation</i>, <i>Simple 7 Day Detox</i>, <i>Get Lean: Exercise</i>, and <i>Get Lean: Nutrition</i>.
zlib_text: Minimalism
  A Practical Guide to Writing Less Code
  kevlin@curbralan.com
  Kevlin Henney
  JAOO 2002
  http://www.curbralan.com 2
  Minimalism
  • A movement in art, architecture, music and 
  interior design
  • More generally, a tendency towards less 
  rather than more
  � Seeking the minimum, the lowest point on a curve
  It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyse 
  one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is 
  interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.
  Donald Judd
  
  JAOO 2002
  http://www.curbralan.com 3
  Less Code, More Software
  • Creeping featurism and code verbosity do not 
  add to the used functionality of the software
  � Functionality is weakly correlated with the 
  number of lines of code written
  • On the other hand, minimalism is not the 
  reduction of source code to line noise
  � Code should be sufficient and fit for purpose
  The difference between a good and a poor architect is that