I remember finding Tom Augspurger's pandas code years ago and thinking it was beautiful.1 It sounds weird to say today, and new engineers might think wtf does it matter. But beautiful code used to be a thing. It was code that worked and had style. I think it stemmed from the hacker's adage that "code is read more than it's written". So we found ways to write code that doubled as an explanation for whoever came next. But it was more than clarity. You could have two functionally identical, well-documented programs, and one would just feel better. Beautiful code. It...