Five standards, kept whether or not anyone is watching.
Elegance that doesn't reach a person is decoration. Every system here exists because someone, somewhere, needed it to.
A tool should be small and strict where it is dangerous, and silent everywhere else. The unsafe path should be the hard one.
Scale is a structure you commit to early. Move the slow thing off the fast path before it makes everything slow.
An archive records the revision honestly. 'Alpha' written plainly is worth more than polish that lies about its age.
If the infrastructure is doing its job, no one notices it. I made peace with that a long time ago.