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July 2024

DRY – the common source of bad abstractions

Swizec reveals the hidden pitfalls of overusing the DRY principle in coding, leading to bad abstractions. Discover how to write adaptable, efficient code that avoids these common traps.

You can't side-quest a product

Here's a trap that talented engineers fall into all the time. It creates frustration, burnout, and the genre of tweets that read like "Why don't people care about the amazing work I'm doing".

April 2024

From trivial to complex – 4 software quadrants

You can classify software projects into 4 quadrants from trivial to complex