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Round Holes
A classic expression describes shoving a square peg into a round hole. Basically, you’re matching the wrong part in the wrong location.

I see this often in software architecture. Sometimes I like to use the term impedance mismatch. There is a component that someone is suggesting for use in a different variation of its problem space. It fits badly.

Sometimes the iss...

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Versioning
If you start from the premise that a system is just a series of access points into a vast array of computations, then if you accept that there will always be a huge number of changes to this underlying code, you see why this is messy.

All the computer is really doing is taking a bunch of inputs, grinding through computation, then spitting it out. But we often end up chang...

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Feedback
Recently, my blog has been getting a lot more views. Unfortunately, a lot of the incoming fields for these reads are just tagged with ‘Other’.

That tells me that the traffic is not coming from the older established sites I know, like HackerNews, but is either fake traffic or newer sites that I haven’t seen. It would be nice to know which is correct. Are people actually r...

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Security
Programmers hate adding security to their systems.

First, it is a huge amount of work, and second, since it is so often left to the end, it is very ugly and disruptive work. A patchwork of hacks.

But it’s misdirected. Without enough security, the system they built is useless, well, worse than useless. If people use it, it could severely screw them over. Nobody wou...

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