Posts tagged with philosophy
Anthony Hobday shares a thoughtful framework for thinking about software quality, from reliability and speed to clarity, efficiency, and beauty. I liked his argument that quality depends on both individual care and organisational appetite.
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Sebastian reflects on Robin Sloan's distinction between software's flood fill and the magic circle of the physical world. It's a sharp piece on where AI coding feels limitless, and where paper, printers, post offices, and other real-world constraints still break the illusion of full automation.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
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A lovely analogy about software craft. Same ingredients, same features, but the invisible process behind the decisions is what separates "this works" from "this feels right."
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Christoph Rumpel reflects on how AI tools are changing the way developers work. The core message: take the shortcuts that cut out mechanical work, but don't outsource the parts that make your work yours.
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Martin Fowler on how technical terms lose their meaning as they spread. When a useful concept becomes popular, it passes through a "telephone game" of explanations until the original definition gets diluted or even inverted. Think of how "agile" or "DevOps" are used today versus their original intent.
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Not all friction is bad.
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The true work is in building complexity into software, then thoughtfully editing and pruning it into something that takes a minute to learn, yet offers a lifetime of mastery for those who want to accomplish complicated things.
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say: complexity very, very bad
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When you say "just," you're skipping over all the invisible complexity.
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– spatie.be - submitted by Spatie
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Our worldviews are grown from other people’s models. How do we control what models we let in?
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Some critical thoughts about React. I think the criteria used to determine if React is the right tool, can be used to think critical about your favourite framemework / piece of software.
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Why feeling that you understand a new idea, is a sign that you didn't.
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A brilliant post by Noah Gibbs with some good insights in what it means to be a developer and the things you should focus on.
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– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent shares a few thoughts on open source software design
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All models are wrong but simple models are more wrong than complex ones. Simple models are more appealing, easier to teach and spread and apply. Because of that, they can bring value faster, and they can cause harm faster.
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– www.tonysm.com - submitted by Tony Messias
Tony Messias been looking up resources on the roots of Object-Oriented Programming. He shares some very interesting ideas.
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Technical debt is not simply a measure of the specific work needed to repay the debt; it is the additional time and effort added to all past, present, and future work that comes from having the debt in the first place.
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Seb makes the case that subtracting things can be better than adding things.
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Instead of focusing of how to get a positive outcome, you might consider thinking about reasons why you'll get a negative outcome. This could possibly lead to new perspectives that you might had not considered otherwise.
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