I skimmed both books several times back in the days, but didn't really have enough experience to know what to make of it. I once used the bridge pattern to writ

I skimmed both books several times back in the days, but didn't really have enough experience to know what to make of it. I once used the bridge pattern to write a multi backend GUI framework, looked it up in the book and all. 32 years into the game my perspective is that patterns is exactly what I don't want in my code...