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Glad to share my case study on a feature I designed for WhatsApp. #StatusDraft
As a WhatsApp user, sometimes I wish I had a feature in WhatsApp like X that allows me to save my content in a draft.
This helps and gives me enough time to post and refine my content as I see fit.
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Day 25/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Murphy's Law:
"If something can go wrong, it will go wrong."
Great systems aren't designed around everything working perfectly.
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They're designed around what happens when things fail.
That's where reliability comes from.
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After studying 6 software engineering laws on time, estimation, and planning, here's my biggest takeaway:
Software engineering is largely the management of uncertainty.
We underestimate complexity.
We misjudge timelines.
We chase the wrong metrics.
We optimize too early.
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The best engineers don't predict perfectly.
They adapt, measure, and learn continuously.
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Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering retweeted
The IGP crack team has arrested Ifechukwu Dennis who originated the fake voice that he passed on to his gullible targets as President Tinubu’s voice. Dennis was arrested in Benin. The police will issue an official statement.
A tech expert has just traced the origin of the fake AI voice note attributed to President Tinubu and revealed the true identity of suspected mastermind of the fake voice note: IFECHUKWU DENNIS.
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Day 24/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Premature Optimization:
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
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It's easy to spend time solving performance problems that don't actually exist yet.
Understand first.
Measure second.
Optimize last.
Leave a comment if this resonates with you. 🙌
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Ukata Emmanuel | UI/UX & Frontend-Engineering retweeted
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If you can’t go out for the protest, the least you can do is to repost 😢
Please let's repost and share massively😭
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Day 23/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Gilb's Law:
Anything important can be measured in some way better than not measuring it at all.
Yesterday's Goodhart's Law taught me:
don't worship metrics.
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Today's Gilb's Law taught me: don't ignore them either.
The goal isn't perfect measurement, but visibility.
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Day 22/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize: metrics are useful for guidance.
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But the moment people are rewarded for the metric itself, they'll start optimizing the score instead of the outcome.
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Day 21/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Ninety-Ninety Rule:
The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time.
The remaining 10% takes another 90%.
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The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize: building software is one challenge and finishing it well is another.
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Day 20/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Parkinson’s Law:
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
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The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize:
too much time can sometimes create:
Overthinking,
Over-engineering,
and unnecessary complexity.
Constraints shape systems, too.
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Day 19/56 — Software Engineering Laws
Hofstadter’s Law:
“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
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The deeper I study software engineering, the more I realize:
Complexity doesn’t only affect systems, it also affects our ability to estimate them accurately.
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After studying 9 more software engineering laws focused on teams and organizations, one thing keeps becoming clearer to me:
Many software problems are actually people problems.
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The deeper I go into these laws, the more I realize:
communication shapes architecture,
coordination shapes delivery,
leadership shapes systems,
and organizational structure shapes outcomes.
Every large software system is also a human system.
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Still learning. Still connecting the dots.
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