{"id":9495,"date":"2026-04-27T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:15:24","slug":"code-is-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/code-is-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Code is Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A nice essay from Cam Pedersen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s just material waiting for the next idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re gonna have a&nbsp;<em>really<\/em>&nbsp;bad time if you get too attached to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Code is the same way. We&#8217;re so precious about it sometimes, like every line is sacred. But it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s just text.&nbsp;<strong>Delete it. Rewrite it. Start fresh.<\/strong>&nbsp;The idea survives even when the implementation doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/campedersen.com\/code-is-clay\">Code is Clay<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice essay from Cam Pedersen. Clay breaks. A lot. My first few attempts collapsed on the wheel. One piece cracked in the kiln. I dropped another walking to my car. But nobody cries about it, you just start over. The clay doesn&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s just material waiting for the next idea. You&#8217;re gonna have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-editorial"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-photo-7302398.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9496,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}