Give old ideas a funeral

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 The lack of closure on my older ideas means they take up more headspace than they should.

Even a small illustration that can be viewed as a "complete"work will convey the original idea and is better than a half finished thing on GitHub


"Kill Your Darlings" is something I've heard this expressed as

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