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Simplicity, Agility, and Agency

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Error Monads The Hard Way

I can't decide how to best express the equivalent of Haskell's Error monad and DO block in Ruby...

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Module-based Polymorphism

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Method Chaining vs Function Composition

Part of an occasional series on my move away from OO programming

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Design Patterns Are Not Design

Enough already with the factories and the decorators.

Apr 30

Premature Design Is Not Design

Resist the temptation to guess, and let the code tell you what it needs.

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