My Love Affair With “Tell, Don’t Ask”
21 Jan 2021
Many people know of things like SOLID, KISS, or DRY as guiding principles for good software, but my favorite is, “Tell, don’t ask.”
21 Jan 2021
Many people know of things like SOLID, KISS, or DRY as guiding principles for good software, but my favorite is, “Tell, don’t ask.”
12 Jan 2021
Parler had a fascinating history full of security vulnerabilities, rapid scale, and an even more rapid shutdown. In some regards, it’s like the story of Icarus, who failed to heed good advice and fell to his death. People’s reactions to Parler’s shutdown will vary, but a rare take I will explore here is: What if it could happen to us?
09 Sep 2020
Earlier today, I was in a conversation with Jabe Bloom about architecture. In my slowness to figure out what we were talking about, I thought we were talking about something else entirely.
05 Aug 2020
Okay, before I go much further, I want to thank Jessica Kerr for her great article that help inspire me with this article.
21 Mar 2019
The deadline is approaching and there is still so much to do. Workdays get longer, the rigor that normally applied to design and testing begin to slide in favor of cranking out more features. The technical debt card starts getting swiped.
15 Feb 2019
Steve is new to software, they spend a lot of time reading documentation, writing code, commenting it out, and trying again.