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Design Patterns Are Not Design
Enough already with the factories and the decorators.
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Premature Design Is Not Design
Resist the temptation to guess, and let the code tell you what it needs.
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Received Wisdom
True wisdom can only come from within.
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Disagreements Are Not Zero-Sum Games
Once you stop trying to be right, you'll start to understand more (and you'll be nicer to know).
Fear, and When To Fear It
Fear is good, but letting it get in your way is just plain unnecessary. Here are some of the many tricks for pushing through.

March 2025

Throwing the Babies Out With the Bathwater
A defense of Junior Developers
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The Best Features Are The Ones You Don’t Ship
This is an extract from my book "simplicity." The layout has been simplified to work with substack.
Agility On An Index Card
This is an extract from my book "simplicity." The layout has been simplified to work with substack.
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Loop Invariants
Round and round and round it goes, and where it stops... With loop invariants, you'll know. And they'll help get the logic right, too.
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The Tacit Manifesto
I take all the help I can get from the parts of my brain that cannot speak.
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February 2025

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