Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?
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Here’s how I remember it—Chet Hendrickson came up to me in the middle of a project and said, “I could do this simplistic thing now but in 3 weeks that will be insufficient so since we’re going to need this more complicated thing I want to d...
Why So Literal?
On the failure of analogy as a communication device
When I had dogs if I pointed at something interesting they would just stare at my finger. No amount of gesturing or yelling would redirect their attention. I’m starting to feel like that.
Smalltalk Genie
Closing the circle
Now this guy is writing Smalltalk!
Trust Factory
“We’re accumulating code faster than we are accumulating trust.” Sometimes a phrase just hits. Yes, we can create code faster now, but software is bipedal—code & trust go together. One without the other just hops along awkwardly.
Trust is...
Genie Lessons from Genie Sessions: Prose as a Programming Language
This session is sponsored by OpenProse. More on them below — they're also the reason we're here.
Dan Barrett built OpenProse — a framework that lets you write programs in structured English and run them with an AI agent like Claude...
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