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Code is run more than read
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
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Software Design Is Knowledge Building
The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.
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Gleam, Coming from Erlang
I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little feed aggregator. These are my notes.
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--dangerously-skip-reading-code
What if we dutifully communicate the risks and trade-offs to our organizational leadership and they still want to take those risks
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Software possession for personal use
A little rest area by the road to a better web.
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A Note on Essential Complexity
The fact that we can’t remove essential complexity with a software redesign doesn’t mean that there’s nothing we can do about it. What if the problem definition wasn’t outside of our purview? What if we could get the world to conform to the software, and not just the other way around?
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Code is run more than read (2023)
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.