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@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ SnapRAID is designed to recover from an interruption, including `SIGKILL`, at an
 - **Preferences**: Use 0 instead of NULL and '\0'
 - **Preferences**: Use prefix ++variable and --variable instead of postfix variable++ and variable-- where both are equivalent
 - **Safety Checks**: Avoid adding safety checks for conditions that never happen
+- **Simplicity First**: Always choose the simplest design with the minimal number of state variables, branches, and lines of code.
+- **Stack Over Heap**: Prefer stack-allocated fixed-size buffers over dynamic memory allocation (`malloc`/`free`) whenever the upper bound is small, fixed, and known at compile time.
 - **Commit Messages**: Every time a change is done, a single line commit description should be provided for that change
 - **Git Commits**: Never commit changes to git.