Mathematicians, Here’s a Way To Think About Your Existential Crisis
Two years ago programmers were all like, “What I do is code.
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Software Design: Tidy First?
Newsletter by Kent Beck
Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?
12 posts in the last 90 days · newest 29 Sept
Baking a Model
I remember walking to the bus from high school, staring at a Motorola 6800 instruction set manual.
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Speculative Short Volatility & Neglectful Short Volatility
Timing is one distinguishing feature of the Tidy First worldview.
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Canon 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract
I’ve started a series of Canon articles where I explain my ideas as plainly & unambiguously as possible—no analogies, no persuasion, just the facts.
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Air Traffic Control
Keith Adams has spent his career at the systems layer, with nine years at VMware, the founding of Facebook's HHVM team, and a run as chief architect at Slack.
The Cost YAGNI Was Never About
If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.
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A Learning System Made of Learning Parts
Jessica Kerr joins Kent by the fire to argue that AI didn't take the programmer's job, it split it in two.
Trust Factory
“We’re accumulating code faster than we are accumulating trust.” Sometimes a phrase just hits.
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Genie Lessons from Genie Sessions: Prose as a Programming Language
Kent sits down with one of the founders of OpenProse to talk through their method of prose as a programming language.
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