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Software architecture IS Conway's Law

2025-05-31 08:00:00

Can you even have architecture before there's a team?

You're a business

2025-05-30 08:00:00

Quick thought from a conversation with friends

Common abstraction traps

2025-05-22 08:00:00

Here's a few common abstraction traps that suck you in, look like they improve your code, then turn into bad ideas as your system grows.

DRY – a common source of bad abstractions

2025-05-19 08:00:00

The worst and hardest to maintain code that I've seen or written has been in pursuit of DRY

Why websites and webapps are different

2025-05-13 08:00:00

The website vs webapp debate is at least as old as my career. And it keeps coming up. One camp says "React is too complex you don't need any of that", the other camp goes "I don't understand how you live like this". Both are right.

Stateless decision making

2025-05-10 08:00:00

Do you ever feel like your brain is full and there's so much going on you can barely keep up? Me too.