Here are the core values that the participants of the project strive to adhere to while developing the project and moving it forward. For every change we make that does not adhere to these ambitions we are moving a little bit away from our goal, even if we add a cool feature. Conversely, if we make changes to increase the adherence to the design philosophy without actually adding any new cool features, we would add value to the project.

This kind of thinking usually is well understood by experienced developers, however for young and impatient devs who are eager to make their mark on the world it can be hard to live by design philosophies. Also there is no one right way™ in development, and many projects and developers choose with good reasons to not care about this kind of stuff. However OctoMY™DOES  care about this, and as the founder of this project I firmly believe it will become one of this project's major selling point that we are continuously obsessed with the design philosophies of the project.

The most important philosophy is that of kanzen. Roughly translated from Japanese it means "completeness". And my interpretation of kanzen is to continuously strive for perfection. Every little change should improve the total just a little. If the change you are about to make does not improve the total, then it is waste.

Kanzen can be diversified into a whole lot of concrete advice, which might make it easier to follow.