Full-snack developer, Security enthusiast, Speaker, Aspiring Software Craftsman.
Joined May 2010
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Marc retweeted
5 Feb 2023
It's like.. a very specific dialect, or way of thinking, where the primary benefit appears to be in selling the simplicity of framework thinking, but where the outcome is an explosion of unintuitive and complicated database manipulations resulting in incomprehensible designs.
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Marc retweeted
5 Feb 2023
Nothing is more complicated to build and maintain like an application built on active record.
You have to invest an incredible amount of effort into making simple changes to those things after a couple of years.
The amount of mental focus it takes absolutely destroys my mind.
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Marc retweeted
10 Jan 2023
This is excellent.
10 Jan 2023
New blog: Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/c…
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Marc retweeted
4 Jan 2023
You might as well timestamp it: Each time you're introducing a Boolean field in a Database schema, use a timestamp instead. Future You will thank you. #SQL #Architecture changelog.com/posts/you-migh…
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Very interesting article about how super rich people inevitably emerge from free markets pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sa…
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Marc retweeted
27 Dec 2022
Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping together Lego blocks. johndcook.com/blog/2011/02/0…
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Marc retweeted
22 Dec 2022
I would consider Modern Software Engineering by @davefarley77 and Accelerate by @nicolefv et al. to be required reading for every founding team that works with software, regardless of the role.
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Marc retweeted
19 Dec 2022
If the changes at Twitter teach us anything, it’s that we should each be in control of the source of truth for what we say on the Web, else it’s likely to be lost or made inaccessible at any time. Your own site and RSS are a great expression of that.
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Marc retweeted
7 Dec 2022
I expected technology to make programming less laborious, as it does to most things. But I have to admit I expected it to happen by programmers switching to more powerful languages, rather than continuing to write programs full of boilerplate, but having AIs generate most of it.
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Marc retweeted
10 Dec 2022
ChatGPT has been out less than two weeks and it has more apparent use cases than the entirety of blockchain.
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Marc retweeted
8 Dec 2022
ALT a Venn diagram showing things that are actually slowing down development teams (constant reprioritizing, burnout, pointless meetings, technical debt, generating subtle devastating bugs) - and things that an AI coding assistant speeds up (generating subtle devastating bugs, googling boilerplate code). The intersection is generating subtle devastating bugs
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Marc retweeted
6 Dec 2022
"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." – Roy Carlson
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Marc retweeted
5 Dec 2022
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/dis… At first, programming is just programming. You think of a thing. You make the computer do it. 🎉
After a while, you notice that not all programming is the same. Déjà vu sets in. “I’ve done this before.”
A list of distinctions in software design.
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Marc retweeted
30 Nov 2022
Good architectural judgement requires good information.
Good communication and facilitation skills will give you good information.
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Every now and then, I feel compelled to point people who might still not know about it to the best talk ever:
"WAT" by @garybernhardt
destroyallsoftware.com/talks…
If you can spare 5 minutes, I assure you it's worth it.
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Marc retweeted
24 Nov 2022
Prioritizing: "we intend to do these 38 things in this order"
Focus: "we're only going to do these 3 most valuable things"
Focus > Prioritizing
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Marc retweeted
22 Nov 2022
Clever code requires a high skill level to write, an equally high skill level to read, and an even higher skill level to debug. Embrace dumb code.
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