Software Design: Tidy First?

I came across the following example & I wanted to write about it but I realized it was a good example of a Thinkie & I haven’t written about thiat Thinkie yet so here it is. Whew! Quite the opening sentence.

Pattern: You’re stuck thinking about a complicated problem.

Transformation: Look at the problem in its wider context. What are the “sources & uses...

I saw a post on the changing build/buy/customize tradeoff & thought, “I should weigh in. The XP world has been grappling with this for decades.”

I dug in. Figured out the tradeoff curves. Speculated how they would change. It’s a pretty good framework, I think. I learned things putting it together.

(There I go with the Boomer Ellipsis thing…) I looked …

Angie Jones spent years as the "geek whisperer" — translating technical possibility into human progress. Then she led one of the most ambitious AI adoption programs in the industry, and the rug got pulled out. Now at the Agentic AI Foundation, she's working to make sure the standards powering the next era of software are built in the open, by everyone. Kent and Angie dig into...

This and the following chapters are from a forthcoming book: Adaptive Radix Tree: Sorted Maps For Fun & Profit

This tutorial assumes you’re a Go programmer who’s used map[K]V and has reached for a sorted map at some point — google/btree, google/btree, or one of the third-party red-black tree libraries — and got a feel for t...

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