Language-patterns

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December 3, 2025
Boundaries, modularity and a diaper effect
software-engineering software-design object-oriented-design modularity design-patterns language-patterns software-quality knowledge-working modularity modular-monolith boundaries
What is a diaper effect when it comes to software design?
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November 30, 2025
TDD: specify, satisfy, simplify
software-engineering software-design object-oriented-design modularity design-patterns language-patterns software-quality knowledge-working
Why is it easy to miss the point of TDD?
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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 20, 2025
Code, knowledge and "AI"
lean-software-development toyota-production-system knowledge-working design-thinking systems-thinking language-patterns mental-models software-architecture software-design domain-driven-design
What is the relationship between "AI" and waste?
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October 6, 2025
The Inverse Matrix problem
design-thinking domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working balancing-coupling collaboration software-teaming understanding
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
design-thinking domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns object-oriented-design functional-programming software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working balancing-coupling
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?
design-thinking tools domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns object-oriented-design functional-programming software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working
Are we losing something important while getting better tools?
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June 9, 2025
Tools make fools?
language-patterns communication collaboration shared-understanding software-teaming working-together tooling domain-driven-design software-architecture software-design pragmatism philosophy
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?
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May 24, 2025
Composing a PIE
software-design software-architecture interaction-oriented-design actor-model object-oriented-design interfaces interface-oriented-design patterns language-patterns domain-driven-design
Is there a universal way of composing things?
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December 10, 2024
Abstracting over people
model modeling mental-models representations knowledge-working ambiguity misconceptions abstractions language language-patterns peopleware people-skills team-building leadership
How to model people?
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November 12, 2024
The ambiguity of objects
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Are objects essentially bad?
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September 29, 2024
Representing knowledge: what, how and why
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What are the different levels of representing knowledge?