Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
Have you heard about The Iron Law of Oligarchy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy] (TILoO)? No? There's no shame, I haven't (until recently) either, but now since I did, I have some remarks hopefully worth sharing. OK, but first - what'...
Btw. I wonder how many people would associate the quote with the character without the title pic these days ;) When it comes to team endeavours (projects, etc.), there are few, critical factors that play major role in succeeding ... or failing: * shared understanding of the goal * aligned priorities & ability to...
1st part of this post can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/code-docs-that-make-sense-part-i/]. Document your API - Swagger Ok, doctest was for Elixir & Python. Many other languages / platforms have similar mechanisms at the various stage of maturity, but things get even better once you focus on documentation of...
I've written many post concerning writing code this way or another. Same applies to writing tests - all kind of tests you can possibly imagine. But there's one kind of software development process output I've been notoriously avoiding: documentation. This topics is bit touchy...
Software is similar to exactly nothing we had in this world until it has emerged. Ephemeral, not physical but with constantly growing physical indirect effects on our world. Software development has started as a small, isolated industry (focused on actual computing) but now it's powering up almost every...
Programming is not an art. Programming is not a discipline of science either. It's a craft - very special kind of craft: * it requires imagination & creativity somehow similar to what art requires * it has very strong scientific foundations, especially in terms of various areas of mathematics * but...
