> Any software project has a complexity budget, explicit or not
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> The sure-fire way to keep complexity down is also the hardest: say no. Pushing back on feature requests is an art and, if you can learn to do it well, making people feel like _they_ said no, you will go far.
RT @anthdm HTMX is such a simple concept that people are flabbergasted. We are not used to simple things anymore, because complexity sells.
05/04/2024 à 06:50
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I think most people in my extended circle either already seen it but posting about it given there's likely to be a lot more questions as we go into the working week.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed tips, suggestions, and edits. Thanks especially to @cadey who has helped a lot with editing.
01/04/2024 à 06:37
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> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
16/03/2024 à 14:21
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Having switched back and forth between management and engineering, I find it surprising how my behaviour is influenced by my position.
I remember doing that a lot as a manager:
> A large portion of my job is debugging social tensions and psychological insecurities of people.
I guess we view things through different lenses, depending on our position…
Tim Berners-Lee on the philosophical difference between URI VS URL > [The IETF group] wanted to emphasize that people could change the URIs when moving documents, and so they should be treated as some sort of transitive address. […] We argued, but at the IETF the universal resource identifier became URL, the uniform resource locator. Weaving the Web https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html
23/07/2023 à 11:45
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> d’Estaing […] set up a government peopled with [ENA] types, whom Pouzin disdained – if Polytechnique was something like the MIT of France, ENA was its Harvard Business School.