Thorsten Ball

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Thoughts about software engineering I can't keep in my head. Too ephemeral for blog posts, too long for social media. It's the messages I'd send if you'd asked me what's on my mind. Click to read Register Spill, by Thorsten Ball, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Two types of software engineers

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One assumes it's easy because it's a non-technical problem, the other assumes that's why it's hard

Losing faith in testing

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Or: Losing Faith

Keeping a long shell history

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Let's talk about shell history.

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So zero-cost abstractions exist?