Archive - Pragdave

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.

Mar 18

Agility On An Index Card

This is an extract from my book "simplicity." The layout has been simplified to work with substack.

Mar 13

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.

Mar 11

The Tacit Manifesto

I take all the help I can get from the parts of my brain that cannot speak.

Mar 4

February 2025

Plus ça change...

Feb 27

...and how to avoid it

Feb 25

Not an Extract From My New Book

In which I think about ways individuals and teams can regain some control of their environment, and stop the current compulsion to make things complex.

Feb 20

Today I Wrote a Functional Specification

But not for the normal reasons...

Feb 18

Help your brain find errors with a simple layout habit

Feb 13

Source Files: Keep Code Local

I think we're going a little overboard with the amount of structure we force into our projects

Feb 11

Stop Abusing Classes

I've come to realize that many of the problems with modern code stem from the overuse of classes and objects.

Feb 6

Recursive Descent With StringScanner

The easiest way to do ad hoc parsing

Feb 4

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