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January 31, 2026
LLMs, 3D printers and amplifiers
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What LLMs, 3D printers and amplifiers have in common?
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January 19, 2026
COCOA: from Ports & Adapters to concepts, capabilities and providers
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Why changing the metaphor behind application architecture might be beneficial?
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October 27, 2025
The ambiguity of naming
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Why naming is hard, and can even be dangerous?
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October 6, 2025
The Inverse Matrix problem
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Are we trapped in Inversed Matrix?
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August 22, 2025
The ambiguity of architecture decision records
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Is a "decision recording" what we are really looking for?
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August 7, 2025
The knowledge gravity problem
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Is there a force driving our systems towards complexity?
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August 4, 2025
The ambiguity, the curse and the fallacy of domain model
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Is it possible to "apply" Entity Component System (ECS) thinking to System Design?
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July 12, 2025
Time, angle and depth: dimensions in software design
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Can we use physical qualities while reasoning about systems?
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July 1, 2025
Easy will make you dizzy?
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Are we losing something important while getting better tools?
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June 9, 2025
Tools make fools?
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Are we doomed to become "slaves" of tools?
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May 31, 2025
WTF are you talking about? Acronyms, jargon and abbreviations
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How to make collaboration harder?