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Exploring Quality, Complexity, and Creation
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Power to Life, Power to Death – Power in Complex Systems
Power is relative change within a complex system. There are two types of power: Influencing change through responsibilities or forcing change…
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Tradition, Evolution and the Power of Subjective Truth
Traditions are subjective truths that have survived the evolutionary process over hundreds of years. They are needed due to the…
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Tyranny in Software Code
Tyranny is forcing concepts or actions at the wrong hierarchy of dependencies in a complex system. We have seen this…
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Allergies – An Anti-Fragile Definition
An allergy is a hyper activity of a defense mechanism in an anti-fragile system due to lack of stress. If…
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Consumer Provider Conflict – Problem Solving In A Fractal System
Within a fractal system, there is an inherited conflict between higher and lower level nodes: higher level nodes wants lower…
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Goals – Aiming for Subjective Value
Goals should be quality based. Since quality can’t be measured, one will have to use techniques like nomological networks and…
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Creating New Ideas Through Boredom
A great way of creatively solving a problem is through boredom. If you are having a hard time coming up…
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Office Tribes
Tribal living was fundamental to our way of life for millions of years. Its a way of life that is…
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Generalizing Specialists and Transactive Memory
In the last decade I’ve been fortunate, or unfortunate depending on your view, in going through multiple company transitions from…
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When To Stop Looking at Code Coverage – Goodhart’s Law
All companies want to know if their investment will bring them value. In order to understand how much value they…
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Fractal Dependency Segregation – Creating Clean Code
Spaghetti code is something that all developers know is bad and have an idea on how to not create it.…
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Software Principles and Misintegrated Thinking
All these software principles and practices can be hard to keep up with when developing applications. They can be even…
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AngularJs 1.x and the Lindy Effect
A couple years ago I had to agonize over which version of Angular to use for my front end development…
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Optionality and Reusable Coding
All developers have been told to write reusable code. I remember having that drilled into my head in college by…
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To The Cloud! Optionality For Quick Fixes
Full disclosure: I love working in the Cloud! I’ve been at a few companies that have their infrastructure in the…
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Open/Closed and Expected Outcomes
When I’m trying to be a good developer and apply SOLID principles to my coding practice, I usually get a…
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Why UI Automation Tests Are Always Breaking
UI automation testing can be a nightmare: tests break all the time when developers are changing behaviors for new features…
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Javascript, Inheritance And Polymorphism
A strategy to polymorph a Javascript class and call super methods.
