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EvanLin | Contorium
EvanLin | Contorium

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Every Refactor Erases a Little History

A refactor usually improves code quality.

But it often removes valuable context.

Old assumptions disappear.

Design discussions are forgotten.

Trade-offs become invisible.

Weeks later, developers encounter a clean codebase with no explanation of how it arrived there.

Contorium explores a different idea:

Keep the code clean, but preserve the evolution behind it.

Not as documents people forget to update, but as structured project knowledge generated alongside development.

Because understanding a project shouldn’t depend on finding the one teammate who still remembers its history.

https://www.contorium.dev/

https://github.com/ContoriumLabs/contorium

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