The Big Miss: Turning Lemons Into Lemonade
Today was one of those days when I question my life choices. Watch me dig my way out of a hole with the same shovel I used to dig my way in.
Topic Archive: design
Design as Code: A Frictionless Low-Level Design Pipeline
A frictionless low-level design process that integrates with your dev cycle and puts design artifacts at a peer level with the rest of your codebase.
Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process
What a good design artifact looks like, what they’re actually for, and how to use them efficiently to achieve a better outcome for your project.
Composition in Action: Finishing the Swing
In software engineering, what look to be the easy parts often turn out to be the hard parts. If you’re lucky, the reverse is also true, but don’t count on it.
Mixin It Up: Picking The Right Problem to Solve
Sometimes, when you’re tangled up in a thorny problem, solving it is exactly the wrong answer.
Loggable: A TypeScript Mixin for Generic Class Logging
Logging is an implementation decision that should be deferred as late as possible. Loggable lets you defer it until runtime!
Code Complete: A Day in the Life of a Product
We’re all professionals here, right? And we all know there’s often quite a gap between what gets posted to social media and the reality on the ground.
What Good Looks Like: A Real-World Typescript Refactor
Watch a complex Javascript configuration object collapse into declarative goodness thanks to type safety, abstraction, and generic design.
Karmic Rule Five
generic logic + custom config ≫ custom logic – Karmic Rules for Writing Pretty Good Code
Karmic Rule Three
If you want to get a complex process right, template it. – Karmic Rules for Writing Pretty Good Code
Karmic Rule Zero
Minimize external dependencies and try not to use shitty libraries. – Karmic Rules for Writing Pretty Good Code