APPropriate Behaviour
The book about all the things software writers do that aren't writing software.
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Author Archives: Graham
Build systems are a huge annoyance
Take Smalltalk. Do I have an object in my image? Yes? Well I can use it. Does it need to do some compilation or something? I have no idea, it just runs my Smalltalk. Take Python. Do I have the … Continue reading
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Tsundoku
I only have the word of the internet to tell me that Tsundoku is the condition of acquiring new books without reading them. My metric for this condition is my list of books I own but have yet to read: … Continue reading
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A full-stack software engineer is someone who is comfortable working at any layer, from code and systems through team members to customers.
FOSDEM
My current record of FOSDEM attendance sees me there once per decade: my first visit was in 2007 and I’m having breakfast in my hotel at the end of my second trip. I should probably get here more often. Unlike … Continue reading
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Coercion over configuration.
The package management paradox
There was no need to build a package management system since CPAN, and yet npm is the best. Wait, what? Every time a new programming language or framework is released, people seem to decide that: It needs its own package … Continue reading
In which the quantity 1/”booleans per module” is proposed as a software quality metric, and readers are left hanging.
New project: the GNUstep developer guide
I discovered by searching the interwebs that a significant number of people who try out GNUstep get stuck at the “I wanted to do Objective-C on my Linux so I installed GNUstep…now what?” stage. There are some tutorials for GNUstep … Continue reading
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This post on semantic versioning reminded me that we’re making a future in which Ubuntu 01.04 will be newer than Ubuntu 99.10. This is fine.
The reality is not the abstraction
Remember that the abstractions you built to help you think about problems are there to help. They are not reality, and when you think of them as such they stop helping you, and they hold you back. You see this … Continue reading
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